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Eight dead in Brooklyn apartment building collapse

November 12, 2026 5:21 pm · 3 min read ·Source: NZ Herald

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Several people have reportedly been injured after a three-storey building partially collapsed into an open construction site.

New York City’s fire department has reported that more victims had been found after a three-storey residential building collapsed, raising the death toll to at least eight, with 19 injured.

The building collapse yesterday NZT in the Flatbush neighbourhood of Brooklyn prompted a massive emergency response from about 250 firefighters
and rescue workers.

Four people were transported to hospital in critical condition, the fire department said.

Firefighters continued to work in a large pit of rubble, next to what appeared to be another residential property with its walls torn down, exposing a bedroom and a clothing wardrobe.

A view of debris and rubble at the site of a building that collapsed a day earlier, in Brooklyn in New York on November 12, 2026. Photo / Charly Triballeau, AFP

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One witness, named only as Anthony, told PIX11 News that he heard people screaming and a “bomb-like” noise as the building collapsed.

Another witness, Melissa Orna, told the New York Times: “The whole building started shaking, and then it just fell.”

The building fell into an adjacent work site, where construction workers had been excavating, Ahmed Tigani, commissioner of New York’s Department of Buildings, told a press conference late on Wednesday.

“We do not know how many people are still in the collapse zone, and this will be a prolonged operation,” FDNY Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said.

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Among the injured were seven children, she said.

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani praised the emergency services for their work, saying the site involved “precarious wreckage to navigate and dangerous voids beneath the surface”.

Search efforts were continuing in the Flatbush neighbourhood of Brooklyn, the agency said, with approximately 250 firefighters and rescue workers deployed to the site. Photo / Charly Triballeau, AFP

“I want to ask New Yorkers to please take a moment to pray for those who passed away today and all of those who are mourning their loss,” he added at the news conference.

The city’s Department of Buildings said its inspectors were on the scene “assisting with recovery operations and conducting structural stability inspections of nearby buildings”.

Tigani said that developers had plans approved for a three-storey building at the site and were pursuing permission for a nine-storey building.

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– AFP

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