Families of the missing visit site of Surfside condo collapse
Hopes of finding survivors are fading, but families pushed for a visit to the pile of destruction where they feared their loved ones might be trapped.
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Crews work in the rubble at the Champlain Towers South Condo, Sunday, June 27, 2021, in Surfside, Fla. Many people are still unaccounted for after Thursday s fatal collapse. [ WILFREDO LEE | AP ]
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SURFSIDE â Families of the missing visited the scene of the Florida condo building collapse Sunday as rescuers kept digging through the mound of rubble and clinging to hope that someone could yet be alive somewhere under the broken concrete and twisted metal.
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AP Photo Crews work in the rubble at the Champlain Towers South Condo, Sunday in Surfside. One hundred fifty-nine people were still unaccounted for two days after Thursday s collapse.
Buses brought several groups of relatives to a place where they could view the pile and the rescuers at work. As relatives returned to a nearby hotel, several paused to embrace as they got off the bus. Others walked slowly with arms around each other back to the hotel entrance.
Families of the missing visited the scene of the Florida condo building collapse Sunday as rescuers kept digging through the mound of rubble and clinging to hope that someone could yet be alive somewhere under the broken concrete and twisted metal.
Florida Surfside condo collapse: Death toll rises to 9
Families of those missing visited the scene of the collapsed condo, as the mayor of Miami-Dade County said rescue teams are working around the clock. No one has been pulled alive from the rubble since Thursday.
Relatives visited the scene of the building collapse on Sunday
The death toll after the collapse of a Florida apartment tower has risen to nine, officials said on Sunday after rescue teams recovered four more bodies from the rubble.
A large section of the 12-story oceanfront Champlain Towers South in Surfside collapsed in the middle of the night on Thursday as residents slept.