Building collapsed in Syria's Aleppo, 13 died, 2 seriously injured, search still going on

1. Thirteen people were killed when a residential building collapsed in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Sunday and rescue workers were searching for people believed still buried under the rubble, state media said.

The five-storey building in the Sheikh Maksoud district of Syria's second largest city collapsed due to water leakages that weakened its foundation, government officials were quoted as saying by state media.
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*2. SANA- The number of victims of the collapse of the residential building in Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood in Aleppo city has risen to thirteen , including a child and two seriously injured.*

The Ministry of Interior stated in a statement that, at 3 AM on Sunday , a residential building consisting of 5 floors collapsed in the Sheikh #Maqsoud neighborhood – a well-known street in the city of Aleppo, and there were 7 families among it, as the medical and civil defense teams immediately went to the place, and 13 were recovered and one person is alive so far, as a preliminary outcome, and the removal of rubble and the search for survivors are still going on.

A police source told SANA reporter that the building consists of five floors, and that the reason for the collapse is due to water leakage into the bases of the building, and the rescue, civil defense and firefighting teams are still searching to pick up the missing persons under the rubble.
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