Death toll climbs to 8 in Brooklyn building collapse as fire department ends rescue operation

Eight people died after a three-storey building in Brooklyn collapsed at the edge of a construction site, New York City's mayor said Thursday, as torrential rain hampered rescue efforts.

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Firefighters will treat the scene of a deadly Brooklyn building collapse as a potential rescue operation until they can clear the debris and access the ground at the site, New York City's fire commissioner said Thursday, as rain poured down.

Eight people died after a three-storey building in Brooklyn collapsed at the edge of a construction site, New York City's mayor said Thursday, as torrential rain hampered rescue efforts.

A day after Wednesday's late-afternoon collapse, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the city would examine five companies associated with a construction ​site adjacent to the collapse and 100 more sites connected with ​those entities.

Six of those killed in the collapse were adults, including two construction workers, while two were children. Two of the eight victims died in hospital, while others were pronounced dead at the scene.

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