An accident has been reported from central Turkey. Two people were trapped in an apartment in Turkey when it collapsed. While three others have already been rescued. This has happened when there is a renewed focus on building safety after a fire in a hotel on Tuesday killed 78 people.

Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said 79 people living in a four-story apartment block in the city of Konya, about 260 kilometers (160 miles) south of the capital Ankara, were registered. Several videos have surfaced on Turkiye's channel regarding this.

A huge pile of debris was removed

Video showed emergency workers removing a huge pile of debris on Saturday morning after the building collapsed on Friday evening.

Yerlikaya said those left under the rubble were Syrian citizens, adding that the cause of the building collapse was not immediately known. Yerlikaya further said, "If there is a mistake, negligence or something else, we will learn together."

78 people were killed in this incident

The incident came just three days after a fire engulfed a 12-storey hotel at a ski resort in northwestern Turkey, killing 78 people. An investigation into the blaze is examining whether proper fire prevention measures were in place.

Questions about building safety have resurfaced two weeks before the two-year anniversary of the earthquake that struck southern Turkey and northern Syria, killing more than 59,000 people. The high death toll was partly due to ignorance of building safety rules.

In 2004, a 12-story apartment building collapsed in Konya, killing 92 people and injuring about 30 others. Structural flaws and negligence were blamed for the catastrophe.