Key facts
- The eight dead included six men, a boy and a girl, the NYPD and FDNY said.
- Eighteen people were injured and one was still in critical condition on Friday morning, officials said.
- At least three of those killed were construction workers, according to ABC.
- Officials said several victims were undocumented immigrants, leaving their families facing uncertainty.
- Reports to New York City's department of buildings described the building as in poor condition with visible cracks, according to CNN.
- Several bus routes and streets remained closed on Friday as the investigation widened.
The New York City police department and the New York City fire department concluded the search of the wreckage of a collapsed three-storey building on a residential street in Brooklyn and released the names of the eight people who died, the departments said. A further 18 people were injured and one was still in critical condition on Friday morning, after the building came down on Wednesday.
Those killed were Barry Mamadou, 23; Ndiaye Mamadou, 31, Barry's cousin according to the New York Daily News; José Luis Caguana Cosquillo, 26; Kevin Santiago Reyes Gonzalez, 10; Nicole Daniela Salvala Rodriguez, nine, Kevin's cousin, according to ABC7; Juan Daniel Salvada Guzman, 31; Edgar Sapon, 26; and Gabriel Siguencia, 22. Six men, a boy and a girl were among the dead.
Cosquillo was among at least three construction workers killed, according to ABC. He was the first named by police and had one child, and his wife is pregnant, according to the Ecuadorian consulate, which will help with the transfer of his body to Ecuador, the network reported. Officials also said several of the victims were undocumented immigrants, leaving their families in a difficult situation about what will happen to them next.
Search efforts were thwarted by a Thursday thunderstorm, hours of torrential rain, gusting winds and falling temperatures, but officials determined late Thursday that there were no more people to be rescued or recovered from the rubble.
Officials have cited noticeable cracks in the building before it collapsed that could be related to its destruction. Reports to New York City's department of buildings described the place as in poor condition with visible cracks that had previously been reported to the authorities, according to CNN. The Brooklyn district attorney's office has opened a criminal investigation along with the department of buildings after the collapse, according to the New York Times.