By HENG WEILI in New York | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-06-29 09:39 Share CLOSE Emergency workers conduct search and rescue efforts at the site of a partially collapsed residential building in Surfside, near Miami Beach, Florida, US June 28, 2021. [Photo/Agencies]
The focus in the deadly collapse of a condominium tower in South Florida shifted to the structural integrity of the building as an 11th fatality was reported Monday.
The collapse of the 40-year-old, 12-story Champlain Towers South in Surfside an Atlantic Ocean coastal town of 5,700 about 15 miles north of Miami happened around 1:30 am Thursday.
More than 150 people believed to be in the building at the time are missing.
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Rescue personnel work at the scene of the partially collapsed Champlain South Towers condominium in Surfside, Florida, on Monday. | COURTESY OF SEN. JASON PIZZO / SOCIAL MEDIA / VIA REUTERS
AFP-Jiji Jun 29, 2021
Surfside, Florida – Questions mounted Monday about how a residential building in the Miami area could have collapsed so quickly and violently last week, as the death toll rose to 11 with 150 still unaccounted for, and desperate families feared the worst.
Updated June 28
‘Frantic search’: Surfside rescuers in desperate race to find survivors
The death toll had risen to 11 by Monday evening, and 150 people were still unaccounted for after last week s building collapse.
By Marc Freeman and Alex DeLucaTribune News Service
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People embrace at a make-shift memorial outside St. Joseph Catholic Church, in Surfside, Fla., on Monday, near the collapsed building for people still missing or dead. Many people were still unaccounted for after Thursday’s fatal collapse.
Gerald Herbert/Associated Press
SURFSIDE, Fla. Rescue workers at the deadly Surfside condo building collapse near Miami on Monday spent a fifth day using their hands and tools in a determined, yet increasingly desperate, search to find people possibly clinging to life under the rubble.
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HEATHER ROUSSEAU, The Roanoke Times
Danielle Davis from Troop 51-G is one of the first two female
Eagle Scouts in the Great Valley District of the Blue Ridge
Mountain Council, based in Roanoke. For her service project