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Nearly 100 people missing after Miami-area building collapses

Cause of 40-year-old high-rise tumbling down is so far unknown

The partially collapsed building in Surfside, near Miami Beach, on June 24.    © Reuters

SURFSIDE, U.S. (Reuters) -- Rescue crews picked through tons of rubble on Thursday looking for survivors after the collapse of part of an oceanfront apartment tower overnight near Miami, where officials reported at least one person dead and nearly 100 missing.

Search teams detected sounds of banging and other noises but no voices coming from the mounds of debris hours after a large section of the Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, a barrier island town across Biscayne Bay from the city, crumbled to the ground, authorities said.

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