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At one moment, an apartment building was standing. At another, it had tumbled into a hole. Ruin, and death, followed.
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The Department of Buildings has also hired an engineering firm to provide an independent report on what caused the three-story building to collapse, killing eight people.
NPR Topics: National · Brooklyn, NY
Investigators are trying to find out what went wrong after an apartment building collapsed into a nearby construction site in Brooklyn, New York, killing at least eight people.
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