Eight Dead, Including Two Children, Following Brooklyn Building Collapse

Emergency crews are searching for survivors in New York City after a three-story building collapsed during neighboring construction activity.

Eight people, including two children, were killed when a residential building collapsed into an adjacent construction site in Brooklyn on Wednesday. Firefighters spent hours searching the rubble overnight before declaring the operation over on Thursday, as authorities launched an investigation into the disaster. The three-storey building on a major road in Brooklyn, New York gave way while construction workers were digging on a neighbouring plot of land.

New York officials say they've ended their rescue operations at the site of a collapsed building in Brooklyn and that there are no more victims inside. The collapse killed at least eight people, including two children, and injured dozens more.

France 24 English reported the story as "Eight killed, including two children, in New York building collapse." PBS NewsHour reported the story as "New York building collapse kills 8, including 2 children."

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4 sources have covered this story, including PBS NewsHour, France 24 English, NBC News and Global News Canada. The earliest reporting in the cluster landed 18 minutes ago.