ANKARA, October 15. /TASS/. A fire outbreak in a 24-story apartment building in Istanbul has been extinguished, the NTV channel reported.

City Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu said earlier that nobody had died or had been injured during the evacuation.

The lower floors of the high-rise building in the Kadikoy district caught fire, which engulfed its upper floors in a short time. It is unclear at the moment what caused the fire.