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Death toll in Egypt building collapse rises to 10 PDF Print E-mail
Written by Egypt News   
Tuesday, 25 December 2007
Death toll in Egypt building collapse rises to 10Security sources in Egypt announced that the death toll from the collapse of a 12-storey residential building in Mediterranean city of Alexandria in Egypt rose to 10 on Tuesday after authorities dug five more bodies out of the ruins

Army rescue teams in Egypt have joined efforts to search for survivors in the rubble, which is thought to have buried 25-30 people.
According to Middle East News Agency, security sources in Egypt said that rescue workers have extracted at least two survivors from the rubble since the collapse.
On Monday, the building disintegrated as construction workers carried out repairs on the first floor. It was constructed as a seven-storey building in 1982 without a permit, authorities said. The owner obtained a permit later but then illegally added five more stories.
A source on a panel of experts formed by the government to investigate the collapse said on Monday preliminary findings suggested the causes were shoddy building materials and insufficient use of steel reinforcement bars.
Prosecutors have issued warrants for the arrest of the woman who owned the building, as well as for the contractor and architect responsible for the renovation work that was being carried out immediately before the collapse.
State news agency Middle East News Agency gave the owner name as Hanem Mustafa, and said police believed she was currently in Kuwait.
Building collapses are frequent in Egypt because of lax building standards and poor maintenance.

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