A fifth body was pulled from the rubble of the Champlain Towers South Condo in Surfside Shabbos afternoon and other human remains located, as the search and rescue operation entered its third day. 156 people still unaccounted for, officials said.
JUST IN: Miami-Dade County Mayor on search and rescue operations in the Florida building collapse: "Today our search and rescue teams found another body in the rubble and as well our search has revealed some human remains.” https://t.co/vTIljnCh3V pic.twitter.com/olwttwfoA5
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BREAKING: The death toll in the Surfside, Florida, residential building collapse has risen to five.
As search efforts continued for a third day, 156 people still remain missing and 130 people have been accounted for, Levine Cava says. https://t.co/Fy5As1yzBB pic.twitter.com/tE592OaBfP
— ABC News (@ABC) June 26, 2021
By late afternoon, voluntary evacuations were also underway at two other buildings, Champlain Towers North and East — the North of the same age and similar design to the South Condo, the crumbled building, which had been flagged as having “major structural damage at least three years ago.