One person has died
Searches are continuing this morning for survivors after a 12-storey residential building collapsed in Miami, Florida yesterday.
At least one person has died, while 99 remain unaccounted for, with crews searching the rubble looking for survivors.
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Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, says rescuers are still combing the rubble:
The local mayor's declared a state of emergency - to get more resources to the scene.
A British woman is among those missing, along with her husband and daughter.
Florida Congresswoman, Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, says the scene is shocking:
Rescuers are using specially trained dogs and listening equipment to try to find survivors in the rubble of a building that collapsed near Miami.
Officials in Surfside have confirmed 4 people have died and 159 are still missing.
A report's emerged which claims the apartment block was built on reclaimed wetlands and had been slowly sinking.
No official reason for the collapse has been given yet.
Raide Jadallah is from the fire department:
