Brooklyn apartment collapse: 8 killed, including 2 children

At least eight people died and at least 18 others were injured on Wednesday in New York City when a three-story apartment building collapsed into a hole created by a construction site next door, authorities said.Read more trending news Seven of the people hurt were children, WABC reported.‘A very dark evening and morning’Update 12:34 p.m. ET, Nov. 12: During a Wednesday afternoon news conference, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the collapse of the apartment building in Brooklyn as “a very dark evening and morning in our city.”“Construction workers who had almost barely survived themselves turned back and dug victims out of the rubble,” Mamdani said as a rainstorm pounded the area in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn where the building fell. “People are alive today because of their heroism yesterday.”Mamdani said that first responders arrived within a minute of the first 911 call.Two of the dead victims were children, the mayor said. There were 18 injured people, including four firefig