GTwo weeks after a partial collapse of a high-rise apartment building in Florida, the confirmed death toll has risen to 86. Miami-Dade District Chief Executive Daniella Levine Cava (Daniella Levine Cava) said on Saturday that 62 bodies have been confirmed so far. 43 people are still missing. However, it is not entirely certain whether they were all in a skyscraper when the accident occurred. The administrator said: “Please pray for all those who have lost their loved ones, who are heartbroken by this indescribable tragedy, and those who are still waiting.”
Rescuers stopped searching for survivors on Thursday. Since then, they have been focusing on rescue work. Prior to this, the emergency services had been searching for missing persons in the ruins of buildings in Surfside in nearby Miami around the clock. Except for a boy who was rescued on the day of the collapse, they never found a survivor.
A cat was found near the destroyed skyscraper on Friday, which is a small hope. This animal called “Binx” belongs to a family living on the ninth floor. The person with a family is one of a dozen missing persons.
On June 24, about 130 units in a residential area in Surfside, near Miami, partially collapsed. The rest of the building was in danger of collapsing and was later deliberately blown up. The exact cause of the accident is still unknown. An assessment has found that the building, which was completed in 1981, had “significant structural damage” in 2018.
