Families Pray for ‘Miracle’ With 159 Missing in Florida Condo Collapse

Families Pray for ‘Miracle’ With 159 Missing in Florida Condo Collapse
Emergency personnel at the site of a partially collapsed building in Surfside, near Miami Beach, Fla., on June 25, 2021. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department/Handout via REUTERS
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SURFSIDE, Fla.—Rescue workers scouring the debris of a collapsed condo building in a Miami suburb said they heard sounds in the rubble overnight, as officials on Friday raised the number of people unaccounted for to 159 and the confirmed death toll to four.

Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava told reporters that three more bodies were pulled from the wreckage overnight. Another person was reported to have died on Thursday. The mayor also said the number of presumed missing had increased from the 99 reported missing on Thursday.