At least 13 killed in Cairo building collapse
At least 13 people were killed on Monday, 17 July, when a five-storey building in the Egyptian capital Cairo collapsed, state newspaper Al-Ahram said.
Egyptian emergency and rescue personnel search for survivors in the rubble of a five-story apartment building that collapsed, leaving several people dead, according to authorities, in Hadaeq al-Qubbah neighborhood, in Cairo, Egypt, 17 July 2023. Source: Reuters/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
The building in the Hadayek el Kobba neighbourhood north of central Cairo was in a densely built area of informal housing where rescue workers searched through the rubble for survivors.
Building collapses are common in Egypt due to poor construction standards in many areas.
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Reporting by Mohamed Abdel-Ghany, writing by Aidan Lewis