Building collapse in Syrian city of Aleppo kills 10

Dozens of firefighters, first responders and residents under the rubble and dust searched through the rubble for the remaining residents with drills and a bulldozer.

Some of the tenants’ relatives waited anxiously nearby, while others mourned at the entrance of a nearby hospital as the bodies arrived in ambulances and on the back of trucks.

Hawar News, the news agency for the semi-autonomous Kurdish areas of Syria, reported that seven people were killed and three injured, two of them critical.

Many buildings in Aleppo have been destroyed or damaged during Syria’s 11-year conflict, which has left hundreds of thousands dead and half of the pre-war country’s 23 million population displaced.

Although the Syrian government under President Bashar Assad has recaptured the city of Aleppo from armed opposition groups, Sheikh Maksoud is among a number of neighborhoods under the control of Kurdish forces.

Aleppo is Syria’s largest city and was once its commercial center.