The five-story building housing about 30 people in the Sheikh Maksoud neighbourhood — under the control of the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces — collapsed overnight, according to state media reports.
abc.net.au/news/syrian-building-collapse-aleppo-12-people-dead/101880890A building has collapsed in a neighbourhood in Syria's northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 12 people, including one child, according to state media reports.
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, the news agency for the semi-autonomous Kurdish areas in Syria, 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. Although the Syrian government under President Bashar Assad has retaken the city of Aleppo from armed opposition groups, Sheikh Maksoud is among some neighbourhoods under the control of Kurdish forces.
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