New Delhi, Feb. 10 -- The number of people killed in a building collapse in the city of Tripoli in northern Lebanon has risen to 15, state media reported Monday, while the government ordered evacuation of more than 100 other buildings believed to be at risk.

A further eight people were injured, the state-run National News Agency reported. Lebanon's civil defense said at least one person suffered a gunshot wound. Residents of the area gathered around the crater where the building had fallen and fired in the air following the collapse.

The six-story apartment building in the impoverished Bab Tabbaneh neighborhood collapsed Sunday afternoon. Resident of Tripoli, Lebanon's second-largest city, have long complained of government neglect and ...