(Morning News) According to official sources in Miami-Dade County, Florida, as of Sunday (27th) morning local time, the death toll in the partial collapse of an apartment in Surfside Township in the county rose to 9 and 150 people are still missing. .
Reuters and Xinhua News Agency reported that Miami-Dade County Magistrate Kava said at a press conference that the death toll from the accident has risen to nine. Officials have confirmed and announced the identities of four of them, and will try their best to identify the other dead. And contact his family.
Kava said that a fire broke out at the accident site on Saturday, which once hindered the rescue process, but the fire was eventually brought under control and rescue work continued. According to official statistics, 156 people lost contact in the accident and 35 people were rescued.
After the accident, local residents worried that the other two residential buildings built by the company that belonged to the collapsed building, located near the site of the incident, also had potential safety hazards. In this regard, the mayor of Surfside Town, Burkett, said on the 26th that no abnormalities were found in the two apartments after investigation, but the relevant residents can be evacuated voluntarily.
US President Biden declared a state of emergency in Florida on June 25 and instructed the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security to assist local rescue efforts.
The accident investigation is still ongoing. According to the American media, engineers pointed out in a report in 2018 that there were structural damage to the accident building, and the cement pillars and walls showed multiple cracks and fragmentation to varying degrees.
In the early morning of June 24, a 12-story apartment in Surfside Township, Miami-Dade County, partially collapsed. There were 136 houses in the accident building, 55 of which were damaged in the collapse.
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