{"id":103367,"date":"2007-02-21T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.moldova.org\/2007\/02\/21\/casualties-rise-after-istanbul-collapse-31725-eng\/"},"modified":"2007-02-21T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T18:56:00","slug":"casualties-rise-after-istanbul-collapse-31725-eng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/casualties-rise-after-istanbul-collapse-31725-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"Casualties rise after Istanbul collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

A five-story apartment building collapsed in Istanbul early Wednesday, killing at least two people and injuring more than two dozen others, authorities said. A city worker who chanced to walk by shortly after midnight saw the building swaying and alerted people inside by shouting and throwing stones at the windows, CNN quoted Istanbul Mayor Kadir Topbas as saying. <\/p>\n

Some people managed to safely flee, but the dead and injured had become trapped on a stairway as the building toppled, said Ali Karahan, chief of Istanbul firefighter department. Rescuers pulled out the body of a woman from the rubble, while another woman died of her injuries in hospital, the Istanbul mayor’s office said. <\/p>\n

Istanbul Gov. Muammer Guler said that a 7-year-old girl who was believed dead had been taken to hospital where doctors found she was still breathing. It wasn’t clear how many people were inside when it came down. Guler said at least 27 people were living there and several people were in a coffee shop in the basement. There was no immediate word on the condition of the injured. <\/p>\n

Rescue teams with sniffer dogs worked under floodlights to find out whether there were any others trapped under the rubble. Officials blamed the collapse in residential Zeytinburnu district on shoddy construction but did not provide details Topbas said that the building was listed as among those that needed to be demolished because their ability to withstand a strong earthquake was questionable. <\/p>\n

Such collapses in Turkey are sometimes associated with earthquakes, a constant worry for residents of this sprawling city of more than 12 million. Geologists have urged the Turkish government to tear down some 50,000 buildings that would probably collapse if a big quake hits Istanbul. They say hundreds of thousands of other buildings that rise in an unstable mass of brick, mortar and stone, need to be reinforced. \/\/ Reporter.MD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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A five-story apartment building collapsed in Istanbul early Wednesday, killing at least two people and injuring more than two dozen others, authorities said. A city worker who chanced to walk by shortly after midnight saw the building swaying and alerted people inside by shouting and throwing stones at the windows, CNN quoted Istanbul Mayor Kadir Topbas as saying. <\/p>\n

Some people managed to safely flee, but the dead and injured had become trapped on a stairway as the building toppled, said Ali Karahan, chief of Istanbul firefighter department. Rescuers pulled out the body of a woman from the rubble, while another woman died of her injuries in hospital, the Istanbul mayor’s office said. <\/p>\n

Istanbul Gov. Muammer Guler said that a 7-year-old girl who was believed dead had been taken to hospital where doctors found she was still breathing. It wasn’t clear how many people were inside when it came down. Guler said at least 27 people were living there and several people were in a coffee shop in the basement. There was no immediate word on the condition of the injured. <\/p>\n

Rescue teams with sniffer dogs worked under floodlights to find out whether there were any others trapped under the rubble. Officials blamed the collapse in residential Zeytinburnu district on shoddy construction but did not provide details Topbas said that the building was listed as among those that needed to be demolished because their ability to withstand a strong earthquake was questionable. <\/p>\n

Such collapses in Turkey are sometimes associated with earthquakes, a constant worry for residents of this sprawling city of more than 12 million. Geologists have urged the Turkish government to tear down some 50,000 buildings that would probably collapse if a big quake hits Istanbul. They say hundreds of thousands of other buildings that rise in an unstable mass of brick, mortar and stone, need to be reinforced. \/\/ Reporter.MD<\/p>\n

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