Building Collapse in Miami: More Images of the Tragedy Following the Collapse of Part of a Beachfront Condo

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A collapse in a building of 12 flats in Miami Beach, Florida, left this Thursday at least one person dead, eight injured and 55 missing.

The collapse occurred in a part of Chaplain Towers, a condominium of 12 plants and 100 apartments built in 1280 facing the sea, in Surfside.

• The collapse of a building in Miami leaves at least one dead and 51 missing

Miami-Dade County Commissioner Sally Heyman informed CBS News that 51 people who are supposed to reside in the building had not been able to be located early Thursday.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said he would travel to the site during the day. “We are preparing for some bad news just because of the destruction we are seeing,” he warned.

While in the place began a huge rescue operation with sniffer dogs to search through the rubble of the collapsed building in the early hours of the morning.

Authorities were unclear if the work being done on the roof of the forty-year-old building contributed to the disaster.

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