Beirut, Jan. 25 -- At least two people were killed on Saturday after a five-story residential building collapsed at dawn in the Qobbeh area of Tripoli, northern Lebanon, the Civil Defence said.
Local authorities reported the victims as 66-year-old Ahmad Abdul Hamid Al-Mir and his daughter, Alissar Al-Mir, a nurse at the government hospital.
The building, located on Al-Jadeed Street, collapsed in the early morning, trapping a family under the rubble and prompting an immediate rescue response from the Civil Defence, the Lebanese Red Cross, emergency associations, and volunteers, according to the National News Agency.
Rescue teams had earlier pulled one woman alive from under the debris and transferred her to the local hospital for treatmen...