ISTANBUL – An apartment building collapsed in the Turkish city of Istanbul on Sunday, killing one person and injuring eight, authorities said. The collapse renewed fears about the resilience of buildings in a city prone to earthquakes.
His office later said one more injured person was rescued and a body was recovered.
Images from a camera across the street showed passengers waiting to board a public minibus at the time of the collapse narrowly escaped being struck by falling debris.
Urbanization Minister Mehmet Ozhaseki posted on social media platform X that the apartments had been built without complying to standards and additional stories had been illegally added later.
Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya, meanwhile, said two people – the building owner and the owner of a restaurant on the ground floor – had been detained.
More than 59,000 people were killed last year when a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck parts of southern Turkey and neighboring Syria. The disaster highlighted the poor enforcement of building regulations in Turkey.
Istanbul, with an official population of 16 million, lies near the North Anatolian Fault. A 1999 earthquake centered to the south of the city killed at least 18,000 people. The municipality has said there are 200,000 buildings housing 3 million people that are in urgent need of improvement.
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