06/27/2021 11:47 AM
Clarín.com
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Updated 06/27/2021 12:40 PM
Miami-Dade police released the names of
three fatalities
from the collapse that occurred in the town of Surfside, near Miami Beach, so that so far there are
four of the five identified dead and 156 missing
, while they continue this Sunday rescue work.
"We have recovered four bodies and other human remains. The death toll"
from the building collapse is now "9,"
said Miami Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava.
Adding to Stacie Dawn Fang, 54, the first mortal victim to be identified, the names of the deceased released in the last hours are the Hispanics
Antonio Lozano
, 83;
Gladys Lozano
, 79, and
Manuel Lafont,
54.
At first it was reported that Lafont was Argentine, but later it was learned that he was born in Houston (Texas) and has Cuban descent.
The first two were in department 903 of the Champlain Towers building at the time of the partial collapse, while Lafont was in 801, the Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD) reported via Twitter.
Manuel Lafont (54), one of the fatal victims of the collapse in Miami, along with his ex-wife, who was not at the scene of the accident.
Facebook photo
Dawn Fang was the mother of a 15-year-old boy rescued alive from the rubble shortly after the incident occurred.
"The work of the rescuers
continues 24 hours a day
in the effort to find survivors in empty spaces among the rubble of the #SurfsideBuildingCollapse," said the police authorities on the social network.
For her part, the mayor of the county, Daniella Levine-Cava, said earlier this Sunday that she is "on the ground" with members of the Israeli rescue team and all the agencies involved in the operation.
The identification of the victims is a complex task, said Levine Cava, who stressed that the relatives of the disappeared will be asked to provide
DNA samples
to facilitate the task.
The search was hampered on Saturday by a fire at the base of the mass of iron, reinforced concrete and furniture remains.
Since part of the Champlain Towers building, with 136 apartments and on the beachfront in Surfside, north of Miami Beach, collapsed at dawn on Thursday 24, the rescue team has not interrupted the search, working four-hour shifts .
In a matter of seconds and for reasons not yet determined, 55 apartments collapsed along with their occupants, who were sleeping at that time.
In addition to rescuers from other parts of Florida and the US, teams from Mexico and Israel have joined as reinforcements, Miami-Dade Fire Chief Alan Cominsk reported on Saturday.
Source: EFE and AFP
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