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78 Confirmed Dead in Florida Condo Collapse, Officials Say
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0:56Now PlayingThe death toll in the collapse of a Miami-area condo building rose to 78 on Friday, a number the mayor called "heartbreaking" and "staggering" as recovery workers toiled for a 16th day to find victims in the rubble.
Another 62 people remain unaccounted for.
No one has been found alive since the first hours after building fell on June 24.
Levine Cava said the work to recover victims was still continuing with all urgency.
"This is a staggering and heart breaking number that affects all of us very deeply," she said of the new death toll.
On Thursday, Paraguay's foreign minister said in a radio report that the body of the sister of that country's first lady was among those found. Several Latin American citizens were reported in the building when it collapsed.
Rescue workers now focused on finding remains instead of survivors have pledged to keep up their search for victims until they clear all the debris at the site.
The painstaking search for survivors shifted to a recovery effort at midnight Wednesday after authorities said they had come to the agonizing conclusion that there was "no chance of life" in the rubble of the Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside.
Hope of finding survivors was briefly rekindled after workers demolished the remainder of the building, allowing access to new areas of debris.
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