What we know about the dead and unaccounted for in the Surfside condo collapse msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Tragedy beyond tragedy : Champlain Towers South was a catastrophe in slow motion By: CNN
By Rob Kuznia, Scott Glover, Curt Devine and Casey Tolan, CNN (CNN) Sara Nir was up late, checking her email when she heard knocking sounds that went from a soft tapping to hard pounding to a frightful crash overhead as if a wall had collapsed in the unit above her ground-floor condo.
Raysa Rodriguez was sleeping in her room on the ninth floor when she awoke disoriented. The building was swaying like a sheet of paper. She ran into the hallway to find that it had been impaled from floor to ceiling by a concrete pillar; the doors of the elevators were shorn off, exposing the shafts.
A family of four, a 60-year love story, a young man with muscular dystrophy: What we know about the collapse victims
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Maria Fernanda Martinez and Mariana Cordeiro look on as search and rescue operations continue at the site of the partially collapsed 12-story condo building on Friday in Surfsid
By Theresa Waldrop, Alisha Ebrahimji, Ray Sanchez, Claire Colbert and Amir Vera, CNN
The dead and unaccounted for residents of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, reflect the area’s rich cultural diversity. The international tragedy has touched members of a tight-knit Jewish community and families from as far away as Argentina, Paraguay and Colombia.
By Rob Kuznia, Scott Glover, Curt Devine and Casey Tolan, CNN
Sara Nir was up late, checking her email when she heard knocking sounds that went from a soft tapping to hard pounding to a frightful crash overhead as if a wall had collapsed in the unit above her ground-floor condo.
Raysa Rodriguez was sleeping in her room on the ninth floor when she awoke disoriented. The building was swaying “like a sheet of paper.” She ran into the hallway to find that it had been impaled from floor to ceiling by a concrete pillar; the doors of the elevators were shorn off, exposing the shafts.
'Tragedy beyond tragedy': Over a week after Surfside condo collapse, questions remain unanswered cnn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cnn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.