SYRIA: Media reported that a building collapsed in a neighbourhood in Syria's northern city of Aleppo early on Sunday, killing at least 16 people, including a child, and injuring four others. The five-story building housing about 30 people is in the Sheikh Maksoud neighbourhood under the control of the U.S.-backed Kurdishled Syrian Democratic Forces. It collapsed over night, according to the report, after water leakages weakened the structure's foundation.
Dozens of firefighters, first responders and residents covered in debris and dust were searching through the rubble for the remaining residents with drills and a bulldozer. 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.
Hawar News, the news agency for the semi-autonomous Kurdish areas in Syria, initially reported seven people were killed and three were injured, two of them critically. Many buildings in Aleppo were destroyed or damaged during Syria's 11-year conflict, which has killed hundreds of thousands and displaced half the country's prewar population of 23 million. Although the Syrian government under President Bashar Assad has retaken Aleppo from armed opposition groups, Sheikh Maksoud is among some neighborhoods under the control of Kurdish forces
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