Recovery efforts moved into their third week on Friday in Surfside, Florida, with local officials announcing the death toll now at 78.
Dozens more people remain missing, as reported by the Miami Herald.
Paraguay’s foreign minister said Thursday that rescuers had found in the rubble of a collapsed Florida condominium the bodies of Sophia López Moreira, the sister of Paraguay’s first lady Silvana Abdo, her husband Luis Pettengill and the youngest of their three children.
Foreign Minister Euclides Acevedo told Paraguay’s ABC Cardinal radio station that the two other children and the family’s nanny, Lady Luna, are still missing.
“We ask people for their solidarity and a prayer,” he said. “In the face of a tragedy, Paraguayan people must show their traditional solidarity.”
Juana Villalba, mother of Lady Luna, is in Miami awaiting news about her daughter. Villalba traveled along with her niece Lourdes Luna from their South American country.
The Paraguayans were among several Latin American citizens who were reported in the condominium when it collapsed June 24. Others in the building came from Argentina, Venezuela and Uruguay.
Rescue workers are now focused on finding remains instead of survivors.
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