A state media report says that water leakages had weakened the foundation of a building that collapsed in Syria.
The Associated PressRescuers sift through the rubble of a building that collapsed early Sunday in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.The five-storey building housing about 30 people is in the Sheikh Maksoud neighbourhood under the control of the U.S.-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces . It collapsed overnight, according to the report, after water leakages weakened the structure's foundation.
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 backs of trucks. Civil defence workers and civilians work on the rubble of the destroyed building in the Sheikh Maksoud neighbourhood of Aleppo on Sunday.
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