Canadian killed in Miami building cave in, three more Canadians missing

The body of a Canadian has been chanced on at the design of a collapsed residence in southern Florida.

Global Affairs Canada said on Tuesday that the Canadian is amongst 36 tiresome in the cave in that took place on June 24. The manager company said three other Canadians are amongst the more than 100 of us that remain unaccounted for.

“Canada sends its deepest condolences to the household and chums who lost a cherished one in the building cave in in Surfside, Florida,” said Grantly Franklin, a spokesman for Global Affairs Canada.

Franklin well-liked that three diverse Canadian households enjoy been suffering from the tragedy. He said that Canadian consular officials in Miami are providing stammer make stronger to the household of the deceased and to the households of of us which could be serene missing.

“We can additionally continue to liaise with local authorities in case they’ve any updates to present on these Canadians and the difficulty more broadly,” said Franklin.

A ramped-up rescue effort at the collapsed residence building confronted sleek threats from the weather as Tropical Storm Elsa began lashing Florida.

Local officials said search crews can work by rain, but lightning from unrelated thunderstorms has compelled them to cease at instances — including a two-hour stoppage on Tuesday morning. Officers said a garage effect in the rubble has stuffed with water thanks to the current rain.

“Active search and rescue continued at some stage in the night, and these groups continue by extraordinarily damaging and challenging conditions,” Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava told reporters. “In the course of the rain and by the wind they’ve continued searching.”

While more than 100 of us remain unaccounted for, most efficient 70 of those are confirmed to enjoy been inside the Champlain Towers South building in Surfside when it collapsed in the early morning hours of June 24, she said.

No one has been rescued alive since the main hours after the cave in.

The unstable remaining fragment of the residence building used to be demolished Sunday amid fears that the structure could also fall.

Officers said the demolition gave rescuers bag true of entry to to previously inaccessible areas, including bedrooms where of us had been believed to be sleeping at the time of the cave in.

While officials are serene calling their efforts a search and rescue operation, Cava said households of those serene missing are preparing for news of “tragic loss.’’

— with files from The Related Press.

This represent by The Canadian Press used to be first printed July 6, 2021.