{"id":4251,"date":"2026-11-12T10:03:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T05:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4251"},"modified":"2026-11-12T10:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T05:03:47","slug":"building-collapse-in-brooklyn-kills-at-least-two-injures-more-than-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4251","title":{"rendered":"Building collapse in Brooklyn kills at least two, injures more than 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A three-story building next \u200cto a construction site collapsed in Brooklyn on Wednesday, killing at least two people and sending more than 10 others to the hospital, New York City officials said, as rescuers searched the rubble for possible additional victims.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The four-unit apartment \u200bbuilding dating from 1930 collapsed and tumbled into the adjoining construction site where excavation work was \u200bunderway, and the cause was under investigation, said John Esposito, the city\u2019s fire \u2060department chief.<\/p>\n<p>The number of people who were at home when the building in the Flatbush area \u200bof Brooklyn collapsed at about 4pm was not immediately known, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>They did not \u200bsay how many workers were on the construction site at the time of the collapse.<\/p>\n<p>A firefighting crew that happened to be in the neighbourhood was on the scene within a minute of the collapse and helped pull the first \u200bvictims from the debris, authorities told reporters at an evening press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Zohran Mamdani said \u200bat least two people were killed, and that more than 10 others were taken to local hospitals with a combination \u200cof \u2060critical and non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>City Fire Department Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said the overall number of known victims stood at 19 people, 7 of them children. She declined to say whether the two dead were children or adults.<\/p>\n<p>A firefighter also suffered minor injuries, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Local television news footage showed rescue workers \u200bwith search dogs combing \u200bthrough the building\u2019s ruins, \u2060removing debris in buckets, seeking any signs of people who may have been trapped in voids beneath the debris.<\/p>\n<p>New York television station WABC-TV reported that \u200bat least four survivors were pulled from the wreckage about 2 to 2 \u200b1\/2 hours \u2060after the collapse, including a pregnant woman.<\/p>\n<p>Esposito said it would take rescue teams several days for the entire site to be \u201csearched for all potential victims,\u201d adding, \u201cWe do not know how many people are missing overall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u2060Fire Department initially \u200bsaid four people were critically injured and six more sustained \u200bminor injuries before the first two survivors to be rescued were pulled from the debris.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A three-story building next \u200cto a construction site collapsed in Brooklyn on Wednesday, killing at least two people and sending more than 10 others to the hospital, New York City officials said, as rescuers searched the rubble for possible additional victims. The four-unit apartment \u200bbuilding dating from 1930 collapsed and tumbled into the adjoining construction site where excavation work was \u200bunderway, and the cause was under investigation, said John Esposito, the city\u2019s fire \u2060department chief. 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