NEW YORK: Rescue teams worked through torrential rain on Thursday and found no more victims in the rubble of a New York City apartment building collapse that killed at least eight people, prompting Mayor Zohran Mamdani to order an investigation into dozens of linked construction sites.
A day after Wednesday's late-afternoon collapse in the city's Brooklyn borough, Mamdani said the city would examine five companies associated with a construction site adjacent to the collapsed building and 100 more sites connected with those entities.
The construction site was undergoing excavation work that started earlier this year, historical satellite imagery showed. An official notice filed by a construction company in September informed authorities that the earthwork included "rock blasting", official records showed.
