Eight people, two of them children, died when a Brooklyn apartment building collapsed into an adjacent construction site on Wednesday.
The structure at 1321 Flatbush Avenue gave way around 4 p.m., triggering a frantic search-and-rescue operation that drew more than 250 first responders to the city's Flatbush neighborhood.
Eighteen people were injured, among them four firefighters, and one victim remained in critical condition. Six of the dead perished at the scene and two at nearby hospitals, while two of those killed were construction workers from the neighboring site.
Crews searched through pounding rain before concluding operations shortly after 4 p.m. Thursday, having found no additional victims in the rubble.
The city has withheld the victims' names, though two have been identified as Ecuadorian nationals, Gabriel Ariolfo Siguencia Yupa and Jose Luis Caguana Cosquillo.
A sweeping investigation into both the collapsed building and the adjacent site is now underway, led by the Department of Buildings and law enforcement. Inspectors have begun reviewing roughly 100 other properties tied to the five entities connected to the project, and any party found responsible faces full accountability.