At least 12 people, including a child, have been killed when a five-storey building housing about 30 people in the Sheikh Maksoud neighbourhood of Aleppo collapsed, according to regime media.
Dozens of firefighters, first responders, and residents covered in debris and dust are searching
through the rubble for the survivors. (AP)
A building collapsed in a neighbourhood in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo early Sunday, killing at least 12 people, including one child, regime media have reported.
The five-storey building housing about 30 people in the Sheikh Maksoud neighbourhood collapsed overnight, according to the reports.
Water leakages had weakened the structure's foundation, they said.
Dozens of firefighters, first responders, and residents covered in debris and dust were searching through the rubble for the remaining residents with drills and a bulldozer.
Some relatives of the tenants waited anxiously nearby, while others mourned at the entrance of a nearby hospital as the bodies arrived in ambulances and on the back of trucks.
Hawar News initially reported that seven people were killed and three were injured, two of them critically.
Many buildings in Aleppo were destroyed or damaged during Syria's 11-year conflict, which has killed hundreds of thousands and displaced half the country’s pre-war population of 23 million.
Aleppo is Syria’s largest city and was once its commercial centre.
Source: TRTWorld and agencies
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