New York City building collapse victims as young as 9 named in heartbreaking update

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Primary-school-age cousins, a young dad soon to have another baby, and construction workers have all been identified as among the eight people who lost their lives in the Brooklyn tragedy

Seven of the eight people who died in the devastating New York City building collapse have been named, including a young dad, a pair of cousins, and two children.

Primary-school-age cousins, construction workers from Ecuador and Guatemala, and a young man from Guinea in West Africa, are among those who lost their lives, as reported by the New York Times from an internal police report and confirmation from victims' family and friends.

Firefighters were still sifting through the rubble, searching for additional victims on Thursday afternoon as rain poured down, the outlet reports.

“We promise,” the fire commissioner, Lillian Bonsignore said, “with everything we have, we will not stop working until everyone is rescued or recovered.”

“This has been a devastating evening and morning for our city,” New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday.

Mamdani said at a press conference that the investigation will not only try to determine why the building collapsed, but also examine other sites operated by the same construction companies.

José Luis Caguana Cosquillo, 26, was one of the victims, friends told the New York Daily News. The migrant from Ecuador is survived by a four-year-old son and a pregnant wife.

“She’s heading to the hospital tomorrow for the baby to be born,” the president of the Club Deportivo La Bahía soccer team where Jose was a member, told the news organisation on Thursday.

He was a devoted husband and father who leaves behind his wife, four-year-old son and his unborn baby, who was expected to arrive soon, according to a GoFundMe page.

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