Officials had said that they do not yet know how many people were in this building during the time when this accident happened. However, he has estimated that about 159 people must have been present here at the time of the accident.
Rescue workers (AFP) trying to rescue people trapped under the rubble of the building
The wreckage of a multi-storey building in Miami (Rubble) The death toll of people buried under it is increasing. A fire official told the victims’ families on Wednesday that four more dead bodies have been recovered under the rubble, taking the death toll to 16.
Miami-Dade Assistant Fire Chief Rad Jadallah told family members at a morning briefing that rescuers found the bodies Tuesday night. He said that the families of the victims are yet to be identified. Jadallah said that in addition to those four bodies, the crew also found other human remains.
Building safety issues will be reviewed
Earlier on Wednesday, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniela Levin Cava said the death toll in the Florida building collapse rose to 12 and 149 people were still missing after another body was found from the rubble. The mayor said he and his staff would meet with engineering, construction and geology experts and others to review building safety issues and work on suggestions to “make sure such a tragedy does not happen again.”
State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle also assured a ‘grand jury’ investigation into Thursday’s 12-storey building collapse in Surfside. The building collapsed six days ago and Governor Ron DeSantis has decided to continue searching for people under the rubble. “We are not going to stop the search,” he said. Till the time people are not traced, they are missing and we have to search for the missing people. We have not lost hope.
The President will go to Surfside
On Tuesday, the White House announced that President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden would visit Surfside on Thursday. After the collapse of this 12-storey building, the relief and rescue team quickly started evacuating the people trapped under it. Large machines, small buckets, drones, microphones and hand-held debris are being searched for the trapped people.
People offered flowers to the victims on the lattice outside this building and expressed their condolences to them. In the nearby prayer hall, people are praying for the people trapped under the rubble. The people who went missing in this accident are citizens of many countries of the world.
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