Reuters | Updated: 30-06-2021 21:13 IST | Created: 30-06-2021 21:13 IST
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As search-and-rescue teams sifted through the rubble of a collapsed Florida condominium building for a seventh day on Wednesday, authorities had confirmed 12 victims of the deadly disaster and their identities, while 149 people remained missing.
Those recovered from rubble in the oceanside town of Surfside included the mother of a local police chief, a Costa Rica-born accountant, a sales manager who was the father of two girls and a young Puerto Rican graphic artist who refused to let a disability dampen his spirits. Here are brief profiles of the 12:
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HILDA NORIEGA HildaNoriega, 92, was the mother of Carlos Noriega, the police chief of nearby North Bay Village, an island community in Biscayne Bay. He had previously been police chief of Miami Beach.
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