Miami building collapse: British mother and family of Paraguay's first lady among 99 people unaccounted for

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Moment apartment block collapses in Miami BeachAuthorities are searching for 99 unaccounted people after part of a 12-storey beachfront building collapsed in a town in Miami.

President Joe Biden has approved an emergency declaration in the state of Florida and ordered federal assistance to boost local disaster response efforts.Before and after images show how a huge part of the residential building has now been reduced to pile and bricks and concretecontinues for survivors in the rubble at Champlain Towers South in the town of Surfside, but officials do not know how many were inside when it fell.

A relative of Bhavna Patel, a 38-year-old British and US citizen, confirmed to Sky News that she, her 42-year-old husband Vishal Patel, and their one-year-old daughter Aishani Patel are yet to be found. Valeria was attending a tennis camp in South Florida. The family were last heard from at 8pm local time on Wednesday.A relative said Maria Obias-Bonnefoy, 70, and Claudio Bonnefoy, 86, are missing. Pic: @jonathanlsanch

Maria Obias-Bonnefoy, 70, from the Philippines and Claudio Bonnefoy, 86, from Chile are were confirmed missing by a family member.Both lived on the 10th floor in unit 1001 of the Surfside building that collapsed, meanwhile a cousin of Miriam and Arnie Notkin said they haven't been found.Earlier, rescuers saved a mother and child, but the woman's leg had to be amputated to remove her from the rubble, Frank Rollason, director of Miami-Dade emergency management, told the Miami Herald.

Authorities did not say what may have caused the collapse which affected around half of the building's 130 units.

 

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