Collapsed Florida condo demolished, search and rescue to resume

Damaged remaining portion of the collapsed Florida apartment block demolished as rescuers prepare to resume searching for victims.

Demolition crews have set off explosives to bring down the remaining portion of a partially collapsed apartment building in South Florida, where 24 people have been confirmed dead and 121 remain missing. Video footage late on Sunday showed the 12-storey Champlain Towers South in Surfside, outside Miami, being demolished – 10 days after most of the building collapsed in the early hours of June 24 while residents were asleep. Search-and-rescue efforts for the missing have been suspended, but Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said rescuers would immediately get back to the task of trying to locate any survivors buried under the rubble as soon as they received the “all clear”.