Istanbul [Turkey], Feb. 10 -- Twenty one people died after an eight-storeyed building collapsed in Istanbul, the Turkish Interior Ministry reported on Saturday (local time).
Xinhua quoted Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu, while addressing a crisis centre near the affected site in Kartal district, as confirming that at least 14 injured were rescued from the wreckage since the incident took place on Wednesday.
The Interior minister added that rescue operations were continuing for almost 74 hours after the incident, as cranes carrying heavy boulders of concrete kept on clearing the spot in order to reach out to the injured as soon as possible.
Earlier on Saturday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan paid a visit to the site and blamed th...