The remains of four more people have been recovered from the rubble at Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, that partially collapsed last month, raising the confirmed death toll to 94 as officials said victim identification was growing more challenging.
According to NBC News, of the 94 confirmed dead, 83 victims have been ID’d and 80 of those families notified. According to the report, police and the medical examiner are working “around the clock” to identify each victim. Angie Ambers, a forensic DNA expert, told NBC News that the use of DNA technology would become even more crucial as the process of recovering victims continued.
Detectives are also continuing to audit an ever-changing list of unaccounted for people now at 22. Victims do not come off the unaccounted-for list until they are identified.
The cause of the collapse on June 24 is still unclear. Documents released after the collapse included a 2018 report that highlighted an engineer’s concerns that the building had major structural damage.
