(10 Dec 2024)
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Cairo, Egypt – 10 December 2024
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1. Wide of collapsed building in Abbasiya area in Cairo
2. Mid of rubble of the collapsed building
3. Various of rubble of collapsed building, security personnel at site
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sayed Shawky, eyewitness and resident of the area :
"I was drinking coffee at the kiosk of Abu Ziyad next to the Housing & Development Bank at around 3, 3:15 (in the early morning local time). We heard a loud sound of something falling. I looked behind me and found that the building near the bank had collapsed to the ground, it fell in its place, not leaning towards the street. Everyone ran toward the site. We found a child named Tarek who used to live on the roof of the building. He was screaming when the building was collapsing. So we rushed to get him out. He was living alone, since his parents are dead."
5. Various of collapsed building
STORYLINE:
An apartment building collapsed on Tuesday in Egypt’s capital, killing at least eight people, authorities said.
The Health Ministry said in a statement that the collapse of the six-storey building in Cairo’s western neighbourhood of Waili also injured three people, who were hospitalized.
Cairo’s governor, Ibrahim Saber, ordered the evacuation of neighbouring houses as a precautionary measure, according to a statement from the governor’s office.
It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the building, which was constructed in the 1960s, to collapse.
The governor’s office said that prosecutors were investigating.
Building collapses are common in Egypt, where shoddy construction and a lack of maintenance are widespread in shantytowns, poor city neighbourhoods and rural areas.
The government has tried to crack down on illegal building in recent years after decades of lax enforcement.
Authorities are also building new cities and neighbourhoods to rehouse those living in at-risk areas.
But many Egyptian cities still contain entire neighbourhoods of unlicensed apartment buildings and shantytowns that don’t follow building codes and regulations.
AP video shot by Mohamed Wagdy
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