Filipina missing in Florida condo collapse

A Filipina is among the more than 150 people still missing after the collapse of the 12-storey Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside, Florida last week.

Maricoy Obias-Bonnefoy and her husband Claudio Bonnefoy, who were staying in Unit 1001 on the 10th floor, are among the people unaccounted for from the Florida building collapse on June 24.

On Twitter, Jonathan Sanchez, the couple's nephew, posted a plea for information on his missing aunt and uncle.

My aunt and uncle lived on the 10th floor in unit 1001 of the Surfside building that collapsed.

Their names are Maricoy Obias-Bonnefoy and Claudio Bonnefoy.

If anyone has seen them or has any information please let me know. Thank you very much #Surfside pic.twitter.com/g1te0xX4eE

— jonathan (@jonathanlsanch) June 24, 2021

Maricoy's cousin, Ajit Jimenez, also called for prayers on her Facebook account.

The death toll in the incident rose to nine on Sunday.

According to a report by Agence France-Presse, the search has been painstakingly slow, hampered in the early days by a fire burning deep in the debris mountain that officials have said they believe is now under control.

Officials have stressed that there may yet be survivors buried in the rubble. Miami-Dade County mayor Daniella Levine Cava said teams had cut a "deep trench" through the pile of twisted debris to assist in the search. — Ma. Angelica Garcia/BM, GMA News