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A building collapsed in a neighborhood in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo early Sunday, killing at least 16 people, including a child, and injuring four others, state media reported.
The five-story building housing about 30 people is in the Sheikh Maksoud neighborhood under the control of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). It collapsed overnight, according to reports, after water leakages weakened the structure’s foundation.
Dozens of firefighters, first responders and residents covered in debris and dust searched the rubble for residents still using drills and bulldozers.
Some relatives of the tenant waited anxiously nearby, while others cried at the door of a nearby hospital as the body arrived in an ambulance and in the back of a truck.
Hawar News, the news agency for Syria’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, initially reported that seven people were killed and three wounded, two critically.
SDF commander Mazloum Abdi in a statement condemned the Syrian government forces that control the neighborhood around Sheikh Maksoud for “forbidding for a year the entry of basic materials into the neighborhood, obstructing efforts to stabilize and restore life in the area.”
Many buildings in Aleppo have been damaged or destroyed during Syria’s 11-year conflict, which has killed hundreds of thousands and displaced half of the country’s pre-war population of 23 million.
Although the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has recaptured Aleppo from armed opposition groups, Sheikh Maksoud is among several neighborhoods controlled by Kurdish forces.
Aleppo is the largest city in Syria and was once a commercial center.
Ruins like a bombed out city from WW II
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