Two people dead as apartment block collapses in Turkey

First a burning ski hotel with blatant fire safety deficiencies and many deaths, now the next construction accident is shaking Turkey: a multi-storey building collapses in Konya.

Two people were killed when a four-story apartment building collapsed in Turkey. Three others were injured, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced. The dead were a young couple. The building in the province of Konya collapsed on Friday evening. The cause is still unclear, said the Turkish Interior Minister. Investigations have been launched. A young couple died and three others were injured. Rescue work in the rubble has already been complete…

At least two people died after a four-story apartment building collapsed on Friday night into Saturday in the Turkish city of Konya, south of Ankara, The Guardian reports. The bodies…

Rescuers pulled the bodies of a 23-year-old woman and a man from under a collapsed apartment building in the central Turkish city of Konya, state media said. Three other people were rescued from the wreckage and are being treated in hospital, the Anadolu news agency reported.

Apartment building collapses in central Turkiye, killing 1 woman

Rescuers pulled the body of a 23-year-old woman from under a collapsed apartment building in central Turkiye on Saturday, state-run media said, as efforts continued to find a final person, believed to be her husband. Three others were retrieved from the wreckage and being treated in a hospital, Anadolu Agency reported. The collapse comes amid renewed focus on building safety following the deaths of 78 people in a fire on Tuesday that ripped thro…

Apartment building collapses in central Turkiye, trapping 2 people

Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said 79 people were registered as living in the four-story apartment block in the city of Konya, some 260 kilometers (160 miles) south of the capital Ankara