Monitoring Desk
BEIRUT: At least 10 people were killed, including one child, and 30 are still missing when a building collapsed in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo early Sunday, state media reported.
The five-story building, tall housing about 30 persons, collapsed overnight in the Sheikh Maksoud neighborhood, controlled by the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, according to the media reports. Water leakages had weakened the building’s foundation, local media reported.
Dozens of first responders, firefighters, and residents covered in debris and dust searched through the rubble for the missing residents with drills and a bulldozer.
Search for 30 missing people underway
Some relatives of the tenants anxiously waited nearby, while others were mourning at the entrance of a nearby hospital as the dead bodies arrived on the back of trucks and in ambulances.
Hawar News reported that seven people were killed and three others sustained injuries, including two critically injured.
Many buildings in Aleppo were damaged or destroyed during Syria’s 11-year conflict. The conflict has killed thousands of people and displaced almost half the pre-war population of 23 million of Syria.
Although, under President Bashar Assad, the Syrian government has retaken the city of Aleppo from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. However, Sheikh Maksoud is among some neighborhoods in Syria still under Kurdish armed forces’ control.
The city of Aleppo is the largest city in Syria and was once its commercial center.
