Four dead and 159 still missing as search goes on at collapsed Miami tower block

Rescuers hunt for signs of life among the rubble at the collapsed Champlain Towers in Surfside (Lynne Sladky/AP)

The confirmed death toll rose to four with 159 people still unaccounted for as the search for survivors went on at the partially collapsed Champlain Towers in Surfside, Florida, on Friday.

Among the missing were a couple from Argentina and their young daughter; a retired Miami-area teacher and his wife; Orthodox Jews from Russia; several Israelis; the sister of Paraguay’s first lady and other people from South America.