An Indian-American couple and their one-year-old child are among more than 150 people who are still missing in the partial collapse of the 12-storey residential building in Surfside, Florida, on Thursday, according to media reports on Monday.

Search and rescue teams have been feverishly scouring the site shortly after 55 of the beachfront condominium’s 136 units fell. At least nine people have been confirmed dead, officials said on Monday.

Vishal Patel, 42, his wife Bhavna, 38, and their one-year-old daughter Aishani are believed to be among the missing, their niece Sarina Patel told CNN, adding that Bhavna Patel is four months pregnant.

Sarina said she last spoke to them on Father’s Day.

“I had actually called them to tell them I had just booked a flight to come visit because they’ve been asking me to come to see their home and to meet their daughter. I haven’t met her due to the pandemic,” she said on Friday.

They were home at the time the collapse took place, she said. “We have tried calling them countless times and there’s just been no answers, text messages, nothing. They haven’t contacted anybody,” she said. Bhavna is a British and US citizen, the British media reported.

Umma Kannayan, a family friend of the Patels, told the BBC that they were a “very loving” family who were closely involved in their religious community. “Aishani was like the little baby of the temple,” she said.