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Cairo: dead after a residential building collapsed
Rescuers search for survivors in the rubble of a four-storey building that collapsed in the Hadayek al-Kobba district. photo
© Ahmed Gamal/dpa
In Egypt countless buildings were and are being built without permits. Another house has collapsed. There are injured and dead.
In the Egyptian capital Nine people died when a house collapsed in Cairo, including a four-year-old boy.
Four injured people were rescued from the rubble in a northern district of Cairo, the state news site “Al-Ahram” reported. According to an order from the Ministry for Social Cohesion, the families of the deceased are to be paid 60,000 Egyptian pounds each, the equivalent of around 1,700 euros.
The collapse is the latest in a series of similar cases in Egypt: Three weeks ago, a 13-story residential building collapsed in the coastal city of Alexandria. Ten people died. In another collapse in the north of the country, a ten-year-old boy died, among other things.
In Egypt countless buildings were and are being built without permits. Builders often violate technical safety requirements. The reason for this is also a rather lax supervision by the authorities. In recent years, the government has increasingly tried to take action against illegal construction.