The first lady of Paraguay is reportedly among the dozens of family members concerned over their loved ones' whereabouts following acondo collapse outside of Miamithat has killed at least one person and left 99 missing.The sister of President Mario Abdo Benítez’s wife Silvana López Moreira is among those unaccounted for, as is her husband and three children,NBC Newsreported, South American officials.Euclides Acevedo, Paraguay’s foreign minister, reportedly said that Sophia López Moreira, her husband Luis Pettengill, their three children and Lady Luna Villalba, a worker accompanying the family, are all missing after the Thursday morning collapse of a condo building in Surfside.The first family of Paraguay is “frantically” trying to make contact with their loved ones as authorities comb through all the hospitals in Miami, Acevedo said.As of Thursday afternoon, the official death toll from the early morning incident was still at one, though 99 people remain unaccounted for, a spokesperson for Miami-Dade Police Director Alfredo Ramirez confirms to PEOPLE. Ramirez also noted that 53 people have been accounted for.Silvana Lopez Moreira and Mario Abdo Benitez.Jorge Saenz/AP/ShutterstockRescue crews are continuing to dig through the rubble to search for people who survived the collapse, but are trapped.“We still have hope to be able to identify additional survivors,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said at apress conference.Still, as dozens remain missing, there are fears the death toll will rise.“The building is literally pancaked,” Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett told theAssociated Press. “That is heartbreaking because it doesn’t mean, to me, that we are going to be as successful as we wanted to be in finding people alive.“The aftermath of the collapse of the condo building in Surfside, Florida.Miami-Dade Fire Rescue/TwitterThough the cause of the collapse remains unclear, Surfside Vice Mayor Tina Paul told theWashington Postthat the building had passed inspection just one day earlier.DeSantis said that engineers will investigate the cause of the collapse, but that answers might take time.“You’re not gonna have those answers immediately, but I know that they are going to be working diligently to do that,” he said at the press conference.
The first lady of Paraguay is reportedly among the dozens of family members concerned over their loved ones' whereabouts following acondo collapse outside of Miamithat has killed at least one person and left 99 missing.
The sister of President Mario Abdo Benítez’s wife Silvana López Moreira is among those unaccounted for, as is her husband and three children,NBC Newsreported, South American officials.
Euclides Acevedo, Paraguay’s foreign minister, reportedly said that Sophia López Moreira, her husband Luis Pettengill, their three children and Lady Luna Villalba, a worker accompanying the family, are all missing after the Thursday morning collapse of a condo building in Surfside.
The first family of Paraguay is “frantically” trying to make contact with their loved ones as authorities comb through all the hospitals in Miami, Acevedo said.
As of Thursday afternoon, the official death toll from the early morning incident was still at one, though 99 people remain unaccounted for, a spokesperson for Miami-Dade Police Director Alfredo Ramirez confirms to PEOPLE. Ramirez also noted that 53 people have been accounted for.
Silvana Lopez Moreira and Mario Abdo Benitez.Jorge Saenz/AP/Shutterstock
Rescue crews are continuing to dig through the rubble to search for people who survived the collapse, but are trapped.
“We still have hope to be able to identify additional survivors,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said at apress conference.
Still, as dozens remain missing, there are fears the death toll will rise.
“The building is literally pancaked,” Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett told theAssociated Press. “That is heartbreaking because it doesn’t mean, to me, that we are going to be as successful as we wanted to be in finding people alive.”
The aftermath of the collapse of the condo building in Surfside, Florida.Miami-Dade Fire Rescue/Twitter
Though the cause of the collapse remains unclear, Surfside Vice Mayor Tina Paul told theWashington Postthat the building had passed inspection just one day earlier.
DeSantis said that engineers will investigate the cause of the collapse, but that answers might take time.
“You’re not gonna have those answers immediately, but I know that they are going to be working diligently to do that,” he said at the press conference.
source: people.com
