Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan talks to residents as he visits the site of a collapsed building in Istanbul, Turkey February 9, 2019. Cem Oksuz/Presidential Press Office/Handout via REUTERS
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The death toll from the collapse of an eight-storey building in Istanbul has risen to 21 while 14 others were injured, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu has told Turkey's Demiroren news agency.
The residential building, in the Kartal district on the Asian side of the city, collapsed on Wednesday. It was not immediately clear what caused the building.
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