10 Killed In Five-Story Building Collapse In Syria

No fewer than ten persons, including a child have been killed in a collapsed  building in Syria’s second city of Aleppo on January 22, 2023.

The collapsed five-storey structure, located at the city’s Sheikh Maksoud neighbourhood fell down as a due to a water leak in the building’s foundations.

As effort to the victims were ongoing, the Sheikh Maksoud neighbourhood is principally occupied by Syrian Kurds, constituting fighters, many of whom fled from Afrin after Turkey began an offensive there in 2018.

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Almost half a million people have been killed in Syria’s dispute since it broke out in 2011, and about half of its pre-war population has been displaced.

Multiple of those displaced have had to move into buildings that are structurally unsound, resulting in relatively frequent collapses.

Last September, a building collapse in the Ferdaws neighbourhood of Aleppo killed 10 people, including three