At least ten people were killed on Wednesday when a building collapsed in the heart of the city of Aleppo in northern Syria, according to local media.
The regime news agency (SANA) said that “the number of deaths in the collapse of a building in violation of the Al-Firdaws neighborhood in Aleppo rose to ten after the bodies of six women, 3 children and a man were recovered, while a child and a woman were rescued from under the rubble and taken to the hospital for treatment.”
SANA quoted the police chief, Major General Dib Dib, that “the building consists of five floors and completely collapsed,” noting that “the teams of civil defense, firefighting, health and Aleppo City Council began evacuating residents from nearby buildings and removing the rubble.”
According to the head of the Aleppo City Council, Maad Medlaji, “the reason for the collapse of the building was the lack of engineering foundations,” stressing that it was “a building within an area of violations that was destroyed” during the battles and bombardment of the city by the Russian and regime forces.
For its part, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that “the neighborhood was previously bombed with barrel bombs and missiles.”