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152 people are still unaccounted for in the Champlain Tower in Miami which collapsed on Thursday last week, with nine confirmed dead.

Rescue workers have been searching for any signs of life, and pulled a fifteen year old boy from the rubble.

Those missing come from a variety of backgrounds - a third of them are foreign nationals, with many from Latin America.

Bianca Padro Ocasio is a journalist at the Miami Herald, which has been compiling information and biographical details about the people who are missing. She says hope is fading.

"Initially they had created a family reunification centre thinking that there would be families that could get reunited. But obviously all of that has now really changed into a very grim scenario."

(Photo: A man prays in front of the missing persons memorial near the apartment block. Credit: EPA)