Death Toll Increases to Ten in Surfside Collapse

Courtesy CNN

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) – Authorities said Monday that the remains of 10 people have been found in the collapse of a 12-story beachfront condominium in Florida.

The Associated Press has been reporting brief descriptions of the dead and the missing.

Police said Sunday night that they identified the remains of Leon and Christina Oliwkowicz, an elderly couple from Venezuela with ties to synagogues in Florida and Chicago.

They also found the bodies of Luis Bermudez, a young man with muscular dystrophy who was from Puerto Rico, and his mother Ana Ortiz.

Authorities say that 151 others remain missing as rescuers search through the rubble of Champlain Towers South.

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