The collapse comes amid renewed focus on building safety following the deaths of 78 people in a fire that ripped through a 12-storey hotel.

A search and rescue operation was underway in central Turkey on Friday after a four-story building collapsed, trapping at least five people inside, officials said. The cause of the collapse in the city of Konya,

Rescuers pulled the body of a 23-year-old woman from under a collapsed apartment building in central Turkey on Saturday, state-run media said, as efforts continued to find a final person, believed to be her husband.