A four-storied building collapsed in a slum in northern Syria and killed a woman and her child, the official Tishreen Daily reported Sunday.
Two other women were also injured when the building in an informal settlement collapsed on Saturday in the north-western Lattakia Governorate, the newspaper said, Xinhua reported.
The governor of Lattakia said he would form a special committee to investigate the case.
More than 35 percent of Syrians live in informal housing, often ramshackle structures, according to a government study published in May.
In 2007, Four people were killed in a building collapse in the poor area of Bustan Al-Basha in the governorate of Aleppo.