The death toll in a Miami building collapse rose to four on Friday morning and 159 people were unaccounted for after a 12-storey condominium slumped into smoldering rubble on the south Florida Atlantic coast.
Searchers using both heavy machinery and their own hands to comb through the treacherous, shifting heap of concrete and twisted metal feared the death toll could soar as the hours ticked by.
The mayor of Miami-Dade county, Daniella Levine Cava, spoke at a morning press briefing of the “unimaginable” horror of the scene in the Surfside neighborhood, where crews worked through the night battling foul weather to try to reach survivors, and pulled more deceased victims from
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