Five dead and 156 still missing after Florida building collapse; searchers race against time
By Reuters
By Andy Sullivan
Searchers worked early on Sunday to find more than 150 missing residents amid the rubble of a Florida condo building that collapsed three days ago as questions arose about the tower s structural integrity.
The death toll rose to five on Saturday after emergency workers found a victim in their methodical search of the site in Surfside, a shore town near Miami, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said during an evening news briefing. Our top priority continues to be search and rescue and saving any lives that we can, Levine Cava said.
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Saturday was another sorrowful day, where no survivors were pulled from the rubble of the Surfside condo collapse and the official death count rose to five (with authorities identifying four of the deceased). Further, a report in 2018 warning about the building's structural problems came to the fore.
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