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New York authorities on Friday pledged a full investigation into how a residential building collapsed this week, killing eight people and injuring over a dozen more. The three-story property in Brooklyn tumbled into a neighboring excavation site on Wednesday afternoon, prompting a huge emergency response as firefighters pulled people from the rubble. “The families in […]

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Narrated by TIME AI. Eight people, two of whom were children, died after an apartment building in Brooklyn, New York, collapsed on Wednesday. The building, located at 1321 Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood, collapsed “into an adjacent construction site,” the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) said in a statement on social media. Eighteen people were wounded in the incident, including one person who is in critical condition, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at a press conference on Thursday. Here’s what we know about the situation. What happened? The cause of the building collapse is under investigation, city officials have said. FDNY said that crews responded to the site of the incident around 4 p.m. on Wednesday and began a search-and-rescue operation. More than 250 first responders were at the site of the collapse. City officials reported Wednesday evening that two people had died.

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