Eight people have died and 18 more were injured after a three-storey building collapsed in the Flatbush neighbourhood of Brooklyn.
Witnesses described hearing a loud boom and seeing dust in the air as the building came down and fell into a construction pit where people were working on Wednesday.
The building – which contained apartments and a store – was adjacent to an active construction site.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, described a harrowing scene, saying workers “who had only barely survived themselves turned back and dug victims out of the rubble”.
The city’s fire commissioner, Lillian Bonsignore, said firefighters were on the scene within minutes and called their actions “incredibly heroic”.
Speaking on Thursday, she said fire crews “are still in a recovery phase”.
Despite the hard rain and falling temperatures at the site, she said, their efforts would continue until every victim was located.
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