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Thursday, June 24, 2021
Around 1:30 a.m. EST (0530 UTC) on Thursday, the 12-story, 136-unit condominium building Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida partially collapsed, killing at least four people and leaving at least 159 people still unaccounted for. Around 35 people have so far been rescued from the building collapse.
United States President Joe Biden declared a state of emergency authorizing the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide aid to the local Florida and Miami-Dade County governments.
According to Florida Senator Marco Rubio a “substantial number” number of the building’s occupants are foreigners. Paraguay’s government reported six residents are Paraguayan and still missing. Relatives of Paraguayan President Mario Abdo BenÃtez’s wife’s family were among those missing. The Argentinean consulate reported nine Argentinean people were missing.