Apartment Building Collapse In Egypt Kills Four
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) At least four people were killed Sunday when an apartment
building collapsed in southern Egypt, a senior official said,
trend reports citing
al
arabiya .
Building collapses are common in Egypt, where shoddy
construction and a lack of maintenance are widespread in
shantytowns, poor city neighborhoods and rural areas.
Rescue teams recovered four bodies from under the rubble of a
five-story building in the Qulta neighborhood of the city of
Assiut, said the province's Gov. Essam Saad. Assiut lies some 400
kilometers (250 miles) south of the capital Cairo.
He said in a statement that rescuers also recovered two
survivors who were taken to a local hospital. Later Sunday, workers
retrieved a third survivor, the province's media office said.
The governor added that authorities had evacuated surrounding
apartment buildings, and dispatched bulldozers and other equipment
to clear and secure the site.
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