At least ten people lost their lives yesterday Wednesday (7/9) when apartment building collapsed in town Aleppo (north), SANA, its official news agency, reported Syria.
“They were withdrawn corpses six women, three children and a man, while a child and a woman were rescued from the wreckage and taken to a hospital”, according to the same img.
Civil Protection and local authorities evacuated residents of buildings around the destroyed five-story apartment building, while debris began to be cleared, a police officer told the agency.
The building in the Ferdows neighborhood collapsed because it “didn’t have a foundation,” the head of Aleppo’s municipal council, Maad Medlaji, was quoted as saying by SANA. It had been built without a permit.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, it was in a sector of the city “that had been targeted by shelling” during the war.
In Aleppo, where many buildings were destroyed in the eleven years of armed conflict, many returnees live in buildings that have been damaged, poorly repaired or built illegally.
Syria’s complicated war since 2011, involving foreign forces and jihadist groups, has killed at least half a million people, destroyed much of the country’s infrastructure and made millions internally displaced and refugees.
Source: News Beast
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