India, Nov. 13 -- Brooklyn Building Collapse Viral Video: A few seconds of ordinary family life turned into a terrifying fight for survival when a Brooklyn apartment building suddenly gave way, sending walls and debris crashing into a construction site next door.

A newly released surveillance video from inside one apartment captures the terrifying moment a three-story building at 1321 Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighbourhood collapsed on Wednesday afternoon. The disaster killed eight people, including two children, and injured 18 others.

The six-second footage came from the home of Anderson Velez, whose wife and two young sons were inside when the building collapsed. Velez was away in the Bronx for work when his wife called ...