At least ten people died in a building collapse on Wednesday (September 7th) in the Syrian city of Aleppo, the official Sana news agency reported.
"
The bodies of six women, three children and a man were recovered, while a child and a woman were rescued from the rubble and evacuated to a hospital
," the source said.
The Civil Defense and local authorities in this northern Syrian city were evacuating residents of nearby buildings from the stricken five-story building in the Ferdaws neighborhood and clearing the rubble, Sana added, citing a senior police official.
The building collapsed due
to "the lack of foundations
", according to the head of the municipal council of Aleppo Maad Medlaji, quoted by the agency.
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According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the damaged building is in a neighborhood "
which had been targeted by bombardments
" during the war.
Triggered by the repression of pro-democracy demonstrations in 2011, the war in Syria has claimed around 500,000 lives, devastated the country's infrastructure and displaced millions of people.