Death toll from Surfside apartment collapse rises to 78-Nationwide

The death toll from the collapse Apartment buildings in the Miami area The number rose to 78 on Friday, and the mayor called the number “heartbreaking” because rescuers have been searching for victims among the rubble for the 16th consecutive day. Another 62 people are missing.

The mayor of Miami-Dade, Daniella Levine Cava (Daniella Levine Cava) said that the rescue of victims is still continuing and is very urgent.

“This is a shocking and heartbreaking number, and it has a very deep impact on all of us,” Levine Cava said of the new death toll.

2:04The Surfside building collapsed: DeSantis recalls the moment he first learned of the fatal collapse

On Thursday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Paraguay said in a radio report that the body of the first lady’s sister was among those found. According to reports, several Latin American citizens were in the building when the building collapsed. Rescuers are now focusing on finding the remains instead of survivors, and they promised to continue searching for the victims until they cleared all the debris from the scene.

1:20The collapsed Surfside apartment was completely demolished in a late-night controlled explosion

After the authorities said they had reached the painful conclusion that there was “no chance of life” in the rubble of the Surfside Champlain Tann apartment complex, the arduous search for survivors shifted to recovery work at midnight on Wednesday.

After the workers demolished the rest of the building, the hope of finding the survivor briefly rekindled, allowing access to the new debris area. The voids where some survivors might be trapped do exist, mainly in basements and parking lots, but no one was found alive. Instead, the team found more than a dozen additional victims.

No one has been rescued alive since the first hour after the 12-story building collapsed on June 24.

State and local officials have pledged to provide financial assistance to the families of the victims and residents of the building who have survived but lost all their properties. At the same time, the authorities are launching a grand jury investigation into the collapse. The family filed at least six lawsuits.