Two dead, 10 injured in Brooklyn building collapse

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Rescuers are at the scene after a building collapsed in Brooklyn, New York, killing at least two people and injuring several more.

More bodies have been removed from the rubble of a three-story building that collapsed at the edge of a construction site in Brooklyn, bringing the death toll to five.

At least 17 people were hospitalised with injuries, including four in a critical condition after the building came down on Wednesday afternoon.

Scores of firefighters and police officers wielding pickaxes and power saws clambered over the wreckage overnight, punching holes through the ruins to pull dust-covered people from beneath piles of twisted wood and brick.

"This has been an incredibly challenging and fast-moving situation, with precarious wreckage to navigate and dangerous voids beneath the surface," Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at a news conference.

"This type of rescue is exactly what the FDNY (Fire Department New York) trains for."

The cause of the collapse was under investigation, but New York City's buildings commissioner, Ahmed Tigani, noted that when the building fell, construction workers were excavating an empty lot next door for a new building.

Much of the rubble from the collapsed building ? a mixed-use structure with apartments sitting atop ground-floor commercial space ? wound up in a huge pile inside the construction pit.

Another building that shared a wall with the collapsed structure remained standing, but its wall was shorn off, exposing the rooms inside, including a bedroom and closets filled with clothing.

Firefighters pulled a woman ? still alive and moving ? out of a hole they had dug into the rubble pile, hoisting her up on a stretcher and rushing her to a waiting ambulance.

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