Death Toll in Istanbul Building Collapse Rises to 5
Nine people were rescued alive, and officials said cracks and later additions raised concerns about the building's safety.
- Five people, including three children, died after the bottom three floors of a seven-story building collapsed in Istanbul’s Maltepe district.
- Nine people were rescued alive, and search operations ended after the final victim’s body was found.
- The building was built in 1987, but its upper floors were added later; authorities evacuated 55 nearby residents.
- Prosecutors opened an investigation and detained the building’s architect and site manager.
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The lower floors of a building on the Asian bank of Istanbul fell sharply on Thursday morning. Five people were killed, including two girls aged 5 and 10 and a 12-year-old boy. More than 1,200 buildings would threaten to collapse in this way in the Turkish city due to defective constructions. - Turkey: the first floors of an Istanbul building collapse, five dead including three children (International).
The death toll from the collapse of a building in Istanbul, with the lower floors collapsing and the upper floors hanging from the rubble, has risen to five, officials said on Friday.
The causes of the collapse of the apartment building in Istanbul are under investigation, while the architect of the building and the person in charge of the construction site have been arrested. The post Istanbul: Five dead – including a 5-year-old – from the collapse of the apartment building appeared first on in.gr.
Search and rescue operations have been completed in the rubble of the apartment building that collapsed yesterday in Istanbul, with a tragic death toll of 5. After finding three more bodies, authorities announced the end of the search, while the removal of the ruins continues. The tragedy occurred in the Maltepe area, on the Asian side of Istanbul, where 3 of the 7 floors of the apartment building collapsed. The Prefecture announced that four…
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Creta24Concrete and metal reinforcement samples were taken from the ruins, while the building's architect and the person in charge of the construction site were arrested.
A total of five people were killed after the first three floors of a seven-story building collapsed in the Maltepe district of Istanbul yesterday morning. This morning at 6:15 a.m. (local and Bulgarian time - ed.) the rescue and search operation ended with the removal of the last body, the Turkish state television "TRT Haber" reported, quoted by BTA. A total of 14 people were pulled from under the rubble. Four of them were dead when they were pu…
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