Brooklyn building collapse kills at least eight and injures 17 as search continues
New York mayor Zohran Mamdani says crews are working through ‘extremely dangerous conditions’ to find anyone trapped Rescue crews have continued to search for survivors in the rubble of a collapsed building in Brooklyn, New York, as the death toll rose to eight.
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- The building, in the Flatbush area, collapsed at around 4pm local time, and tumbled into a neighbouring construction site, with the cause of the collapse still under investigation.
Authorities in New York City said at least 17 people were hurt when the three-storey residential building on the edge of a construction site in the borough’s Flatbush neighbourhood collapsed at about 4pm on Wednesday.
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