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Eight dead as Brooklyn building collapses

A three-story residential building in the Flatbush neighborhood collapsed Wednesday, killing eight people and injuring eighteen others as rescue efforts continue.

Nov 12, 2026

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Eight dead as Brooklyn building collapses

A three-story residential building in the Flatbush neighborhood collapsed Wednesday, killing eight people and injuring eighteen others as rescue efforts continue.

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A three-story residential building in the Flatbush neighborhood collapsed Wednesday, killing eight people and injuring eighteen others as rescue efforts continue. Eight people died and eighteen were injured when a three-story residential building collapsed in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood on Wednesday. Originally…

Three-story building collapses in Brooklyn

A view of the site where a building collapsed in Brooklyn, New York on Wednesday.

A three-story residential building in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn collapsed on Wednesday. The New York City Fire Department reported the collapse on Thursday.

Death toll reaches eight

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a press conference after a building collapsed in Brooklyn in New York on Wednesday.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said six people had been declared dead at the scene. Two others died in a hospital. Eighteen other people were injured in the building collapse.

Rescue efforts continue

Members of the New York City Fire Department work at the scene one day after a building collapsed in Brooklyn in New York on Thursday.

Search efforts are continuing with more than two hundred fifty firefighters and emergency workers deployed to the site, according to city officials.

The headline

Eight people died and eighteen were injured when a three-story residential building collapsed in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood on Wednesday.

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