Twelve people have died, including three children, and one was injured after a five-storey apartment building collapsed in the Hadayek Al Qubba district of Cairo on Monday, the city's civil protection authority said. Rescue teams are at the site searching for survivors beneath the rubble, officials told Egyptian TV news on Monday. All but two people in the area are unaccounted for and the search is ongoing, police officials told The National. A preliminary investigation into the incident determined the building collapsed because a resident on the ground floor had knocked down one of his walls during renovation. On Sunday, another building collapsed in the coastal city of Alexandria that left two dead and three injured.

Source: Ethiopian News July 17, 2023 16:51 UTC