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Eight-storey apartment building collapses in Istanbul, one dead: report

Eight-storey apartment building collapses in Istanbul, one dead: report

An eight-storey apartment building in Istanbul collapsed on Wednesday leaving at least one person dead, Turkish media reported.

Eight-storey apartment building collapses in Istanbul, one dead: report

Rescuers work at the site of a building that collapsed in Istanbul's Kartal district, Turkey, on February 6, 2019. - An eight-story apartment building in Istanbul collapsed on Wednesday leaving at least one person dead, Turkish media reported. // AFP PHOTO

Images from the incident in the Kartal district on the Asian side of Istanbul showed people escaping as the building crumbled around them.
    There were reports of people left wounded or trapped under the rubble. 
    It was not immediately clear what caused the collapse but prosecutors launched an investigation, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. 

Eight-storey apartment building collapses in Istanbul, one dead: report

Rescuers work at the site of a collapsed building in Kartal district of Istanbul, Turkey, February 6, 2019. - An eight-storey apartment building in Istanbul collapsed on Wednesday leaving at least one person dead, Turkish media reported. // AFP PHOTO
    Istanbul governor Ali Yerlikaya said 43 residents were registered as living in the block, according to Anadolu. 
    He said local authorities had told him that three of the eight storeys had been illegally added.
    Authorities immediately placed a media blackout on the incident, a practice usually reserved for terror attacks.

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