Residential building collapses in Lebanon's Tripoli, trapping people, sources say


BEIRUT, ‌Feb 8 (Reuters) - ‌A five-storey residential ‌building collapsed in the northern Lebanese ‍city of Tripoli ‍on ‌Sunday, trapping an unknown ‍number ​of people ⁠under the rubble, security sources ‌said.

Rescue workers and ⁠residents ‍had so far recovered ‍three people alive ‌from under the rubble of the building in Tripoli's Bab al-Tabbaneh neighbourhood, ‌Lebanon's National News Agency reported.

(Reporting ​by Laila Bassam; Editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise)

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