Rescuers work at the site of the collapsed apartment building in Istanbul, Turkey, on Feb. 10, 2019. The rescue teams on Sunday concluded their four-day-long recovery operation on the ruins of a collapsed eight-storey apartment building in Istanbul. A total of 35 people were pulled from the debris, with 21 of them dead and 14 others injured, the Istanbul governor's office said in a written statement. (Xinhua/Xu Suhui)
ISTANBUL, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- The rescue teams on Sunday concluded their four-day-long recovery operation on the ruins of a collapsed eight-storey apartment building in Istanbul.
A total of 35 people were pulled from the debris, with 21 of them dead and 14 others injured, the Istanbul governor's office said in a written statement.
Press reports said the building in the city's Kartal district, which fell on Wednesday, was originally built as a five-storey structure in 1992, but three floors were illegally added in the following years.
The demolition of a risky ten-storey building next to the fallen apartment started after the end of the rescue operation, the state-run Anadolu Agency said.
