The name of a young Greek, member of the diaspora community in the USA, has been added to the list of 159 people missing after the sudden collapse of a 12-storey building in Miami, Florida.
According to press reports on Saturday, the missing man is 21-year-old Andreas Yiannitsopoulos, a student at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
According to his father, Kostas Yiannitsopoulos, the young man was visiting Miami and staying with a family friend, who is also missing.
His family, who are now permanent residents of Texas, originally hailed from the northern Greek region of Xanthi.
Young Andreas was planning to visit the home country of his family for the first time this summer.
