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FLORIDA (July 27): With the last missing person found and identified in the collapse of Champlain Tower South condo in Miami on June 24, bringing the final confirmed death toll to 98, reported Reuters.
The news report, citing Miami-Dade County mayor Daniella Levine Cava, said the final victim was found on July 20, and medical examiners had been working since then to positively identify the victim.
“Today I can report, because of the sustained heroic efforts, the last remaining missing person has now been accounted for and identified and the family notified,” she said at the media conference on July 26.
She added that no further victims were believed to be trapped in the rubble, but police will continue to sift through the debris for additional remains of those who died and for their personal effects to return to loved ones.
With recovery of the final known victim, the confirmed death toll from the tragedy stands at 98, of which 97 victims were killed outright when half the building caved in on itself in the early hours of June 24 as residents slept, and one victim who died while hospitalised.
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