06/29/2021 12:57 AM
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Updated 06/29/2021 12:57 AM
A moving moment was lived on Monday night in Miami, United States, on the beach in front of the building that collapsed five days ago.
Hundreds of people gathered
for a multicultural and multi-religious ceremony.
By candlelight, with a silence that sounded strong in the hearts of those present, they
paid tribute to the 11 confirmed deceased
and in unison issued a message of hope to find the 150 people who remain missing.
Only the wind could be heard, the roar of the sea, which with each wave seemed to want to approach the meeting and some instruments used to pray, such as the gong that a man and a woman beat alternately and very gently,
within a circle of burning candles
.
Different cultures and religions coexisted in the moving vigil on the beaches of Miami.
Photo Marta Lavandier / AP
Among those present were authorities, such as
Miami-Dade Mayor
Daniella Cava Levine.
But also personalities linked to the sport, such was the case of the Miami Heat coach,
Erik Spoelstra
, visibly touched by the tragedy.
"Hope"
was the word that led this meeting, and also what rescuers repeat the most, who continue to remove debris day and night with the always firm desire to save lives.
Among the disappeared there are 9 Argentines
.
It is about the surgeon Andrés Galfrascoli, his partner Fabián Nuñez and their daughter;
four members of the Cattarossi family;
as well as Ilan Naibryf (he disappeared with his Puerto Rican girlfriend Deborah Berezdivin) and Nicole "Nicky" Langesfeld.
Hundreds of people gathered on the beaches of Miami.
Photo Giorgio Viera / AFP
Earlier this Monday, the mayor confirmed the discovery of the bodies of
two new fatalities
of the catastrophe.
Meanwhile,
136 people were located safely
in the vicinity, outside the area of the collapse.
"Our teams have made
significant progress
on the site," Cava Levine said, according to the Miami Herald.
"These numbers are highly variable and will change," he added, making it a list that detectives work on "in real time" to update it.
Despite the passing of the hours, Cava Levine also insisted that "the main priority" remains the
search and rescue
of possible survivors.
The White House, for its part, promised to go
"deep"
until discovering the causes of the tragedy.
Pain and hope mixed in the vigil that took place on the beach in Miami.
Photo Giorgio Viera / AFP
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