Mayor: 2 more victims found in debris; death toll at 18
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Search and rescue crews work atop the rubble at the Champlain Towers South condo building, where scores of people remain missing after it partially collapsed the week before, Wednesday, June 30, 2021, in Surfside, Fla.(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
By: Scripps National
and last updated 2021-06-30 22:33:42-04
Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Wednesday evening that rescuers recovered the bodies of two additional victims from the rubble of a collapsed condo building in Surfside, Florida.
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The recovery of the two additional victims brings the death toll from Thursday s collapse to 18. Levine Cava added that 145 people presumed to be in the building at the time of the collapse are still missing.
The death toll has risen to 18 in the collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida
Officials said the victims included two children, aged four and 10, whose names have not been released The loss of our children is too great to bear, said Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava on Wednesday when she confirmed the update
Meanwhile, rescuers said they spoke to a woman who was pleading for help, but she died before they could reach her
The identities of the latest victims have not yet been released
Hilda Noriega, 92, was named as the 12th victim Wednesday
Noriega, who lived in Apt. 602 in the 12-story tower, was the mother of North Bay Village Police Chief Carlos Noriega and was discovered Tuesday
Her son, Carlos Noriega, is the police chief of nearby North Bay Village. Author: Associated Press Updated: 4:05 PM EDT June 30, 2021
A 92-year-old woman who had lived in a beachside Florida condominium for more than 20 years has been found dead amid the collapsed tower s rubble, her family said Wednesday.
Hilda Noriega had recently put the condo up for sale and was planning to move in with her family. They were notified late Tuesday that she was the 12th victim recovered from the rubble of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida. More than 140 people were still listed as unaccounted for early Wednesday.
Death toll climbs to 18 nearly a week after Florida beachfront condo collapse
The official death toll climbed to 18 on Thursday, nearly a week after a high-rise building collapsed in Surfside in Florida on June 26.
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Emergency workers conduct search and rescue efforts as a large piece of concrete is lifted by heavy equipment at the site. (Photo: Reuters)
Six more bodies have been found in the shattered ruins of a collapsed Miami-area condominium tower in the past 24 hours, the mayor of Miami-Dade County said on Wednesday, bringing the confirmed death toll to 18 nearly a week after the building fell.
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