the collapse of the building in New York; Eight dead and at least 17 injured.
Zahran Mamdani, the mayor of New York City, announced that at least eight people were killed and 17 injured following the collapse of a building in the Brooklyn area on Wednesday afternoon. The rescue operation is still ongoing and the rescue forces are looking for people who may be trapped under the rubble.
The mayor of New York wrote in a post on the X social network: "It is impossible to find words to describe such a disaster."
He said he was deeply saddened by the deaths of "eight New Yorkers."
Mamdani wrote: "The rescue forces spent the whole night searching the site of the collapsed building. They operated in extremely dangerous conditions to find and rescue anyone who might still be trapped." According to the mayor of New York, three firefighters were also injured during the rescue operation.
Rescuers worked tonight at the site of the building that collapsed in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn. Residents were asked to stay away from the accident area.
Mamdani said that the rescue forces arrived at the scene in less than a minute after the notification of the incident.
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