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Brooklyn building collapse leaves more questions than answers

SBS News Australia •
November 13, 2026 • 03:43 AM
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Eight people, including two children, have been killed after a three-storey apartment building collapsed into a construction site in Brooklyn, New York.

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Investigators are looking into warnings that preceded the collapse, and the city is widening its inspections to other sites linked to the companies involved

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Two construction workers and two children were killed when a residential building fell into an adjacent construction site on Wednesday.

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Al Jazeera English
1d ago
Building collapse in Brooklyn kills two, injures more than a dozen

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The Age
1d ago
New York apartment block collapses, killing at least two people

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ABC News Australia
1d ago
People trapped in wreckage as New York building collapse kills one

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