NEW YORK: A 3-story constructing subsequent to a building web site collapsed in Brooklyn on Wednesday (Nov 11), killing not less than two folks and sending greater than 10 others to hospital, New York Metropolis officers mentioned, as rescuers searched the rubble for attainable extra victims.
The four-unit residence constructing relationship from 1930 collapsed and tumbled into the adjoining building web site the place excavation work was underway and the trigger was underneath investigation, mentioned John Esposito, town’s hearth division chief.
The quantity of people that had been at house when the constructing within the Flatbush space of Brooklyn collapsed at about 4pm was not instantly recognized, officers mentioned. They didn’t say what number of staff had been on the development web site on the time of the collapse.
