Over Nine People Killed in Lebanon Building Collapse

At least nine people were killed and six rescued from the rubble of a multistory apartment building that collapsed Sunday in the city of Tripoli in northern Lebanon, state media reported. 

Rescue teams were continuing to dig through the rubble in search of an additional eight people believed to be missing, the state-run National News Agency reported. The bodies pulled out included a child and a



woman.

Dozens of people crowded around the site of the crater left by the collapsed building, with some shooting in the air. 

The building was in the neighborhood of Bab Tabbaneh, one of the poorest areas in Lebanon’s second largest city, where residents have long complained of government neglect and shoddy infrastructure. 

Building collapses are not uncommon in Tripoli due to poor building standards.