5-story building collapsed in Istanbul. One person is dead and 15 are injured.
My prayers are with them.

Pravda.ru

Update: 26 enjuries

Video from Dutch news:

http://www.rtl.nl/(vm=/actueel/rtlnieuws/home/)/system/video/html/components/actueel/rtlnieuws/miMedia/2007/week08/wo_700_turkije.avi_plain.xml

(The comment is in Dutch and the video starts with advertisement of 15 seconds, after that you'll see the building and what's left of it).

omg! why? like an accordian! can you give more info? or address of story? tragic!!

http://www.pravda.ru/photo/report/stambul-2645/1/

Here is the link you can see the pictures.

It happened in Europian part of Istanbul in Zeytunburnu.

How terrible ~ I wonder what caused it?

Well I guess that could apply to many other buildings still inhabited at this time. Very worrying.

From what I have heard, there was a wood oven bakery in the building next door. They think the heat from the oven compromised the framework of the builsing nextdoor. And then when they tearing down the bakery building, the building collapsed. This area is by the airport, not far from the Galleria shopping center.

I think the most frightening things is that this building was on a list to be condemned. And apparently, there is a list of over 16,000 other buildings listed to be torn down due to structural deficiency. My question is, where will the money come from to tear down these buildings? These flats are all owned. What person will agree to allow their flat to be torn down without compensation. This is a very serious problem without the financial resources to rectify.

My God how terrible! I just found out about this! will watch the evening news! I am so sorry for these people although it could have been even worse.
Now that one of you spoke about eathquakes, they really scare my to death although I live in one of the 3 most seismic countries on earth :-S and I can imagine how horrific was the one you had in 1999!
My prayers are with them as well...