Iran Press/ America: Rescue workers methodically searched for more than 150 missing residents while firefighters made progress in battling a smoldering fire in the mountain of debris.
A 12-story, 136-unit apartment complex near Miami Beach in the US partially collapsed early Thursday morning.
The collapse of the building was first reported to the authority at 1:23 a.m., when most of the residents were asleep, raising fears that the number of casualties could increase further.
After the building’s collapse, the rescue authorities deployed 80 search and rescue teams from the Miami region, and continued rescue operation throughout the night, but it was very difficult to find survivors from layers and piles of debris from the building, according to the Miami Herald and other outlets.
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