Eight dead after Brooklyn apartment building collapses

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At least eight people have died and 17 were injured when a multi-storey residential building collapsed in New York's Brooklyn borough, local officials say.

Eight people have been killed after an apartment building in Brooklyn collapsed into a neighbouring construction site, New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani says.

At least 17 people, including three firefighters were injured, Mamdani said on Thursday as rescue operations continued.

The city's fire department earlier said four people were in critical condition after the three-storey building in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn collapsed about 4pm on Wednesday and tumbled into the adjoining construction site where excavation work was ongoing.

New York television station WABC-TV reported that at least four survivors were pulled from the wreckage about two and a half hours after the collapse, including a pregnant woman.

The number of people who were at home when the 1930-era building collapsed was not immediately known, officials said.

They did not say how many workers were on the construction site at the time.

City Fire Department Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said seven children were among those affected by the collapse.

Mamdani said the city's Department of Buildings and law enforcement officials were investigating the cause of the collapse.

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 victims from the debris, authorities told reporters at an evening press conference on Wednesday.

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