Seven people were rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building in Istanbul.

Rescuers managed to extract seven people from the rubble of a collapsed house in Istanbul, two more remain under the rubble; an explosion has been ruled out as the cause of the collapse, Istanbul provincial governor Davut Gul said on Sunday.

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A four-story residential building collapsed on Sunday morning for an as yet unknown reason in the Küçükçekmece district in western Istanbul, leaving people trapped under the rubble.

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“Rescuers rescued seven people from the rubble, two of them are in serious condition. An operation to rescue two more people is underway,” Gul told reporters.

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According to him, the building was built in 1988, and there was a store on the ground floor.

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“We found no signs of an explosion after the collapse of the house, this is excluded,” Gul said when asked about the possible cause of the collapse.

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The governor noted that the Istanbul prosecutor’s office will check the circumstances of the incident.