Thirteen people, including a child, have died and two are seriously injured after the collapse of a residential building on Aleppo, Syria, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported.

The Ministry of Interior stated in a statement that, at 3am on Sunday, a residential building consisting of five floors collapsed in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood in Aleppo, and the removal of rubble and the search for survivors are still going on.

A police source told SANA that the reason for the collapse is due to water leakage into the foundations of the building.