Officials say rescuers are battling to reach two people trapped under a collapsed apartment building in central Turkey
Ankara: At least five people were feared trapped inside debris after a four-storey building collapsed in the city of Konya in central Turkey on Friday. A search and rescue operation is currently ongoing at the spot.
Rescue teams retrieved the body of the 23-year-old from the building in Konya, 160 miles south of the capital Ankara.
The collapse comes amid renewed focus on building safety following the deaths of 78 people in a fire that ripped through a 12-storey hotel.
A four-storey building collapsed in Konya, Turkiye, trapping at least five people, with emergency teams racing against time to rescue them. Two individuals have been rescued with injuries. The situation echoes previous incidents in Turkiye due to structural issues.
The high death toll at the time was due in part to building safety regulations being ignored. In 2004, a 12-storey apartment building collapsed in Konya, claiming the lives of 92 people and injuring 30 others. Structural flaws and negligence were blamed for the collapse.
A three-story building collapsed Friday in the central Konya province of Türkiye, triggering an extensive search and rescue operation.
A search and rescue operation was underway in central Turkey on Friday after a four-story building collapsed, trapping at least five people inside, officials said. The cause of the collapse in the city of Konya,
A three-story building collapsed Friday in the central Konya province of Turkiye, triggering an extensive search and rescue operation, Azern
An apartment building collapsed in central Turkey, claiming the life of a young woman stuck in the building.As per Associated Press, rescuers at the scene discovered the body of a 23-year-old woman while trying to reach two people stuck under
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ISTANBUL (AP) — Rescuers pulled the bodies of a 23-year-old woman and a man believed to be her husband from under a collapsed apartment building in central Turkey on Saturday, state-run media said. Three other people were rescued from the wreckage and were being treated in a hospital, Anadolu Agency reported.