Seven killed in Cairo building collapse

Rescue forces confirm seven dead and five still missing under the rubble of a collapsed building in Shubra district of Cairo

At least seven people were killed and five remain missing after a four-storey building collapsed Wednesday afternoon in the district of Shubra, one of Cairo's largest working class neighbourhoods.
Rescue forces were able to extract two injured residents from under the rubble. They were transported to a hospital while the rescue operation is ongoing in search of five missing residents of the building that 14 people inhabited.
Egypt has seen a number of construction disasters over the past few decades, partly owing to building violations or bad maintenance.
In July, at least nine people were killed in the collapse of an 11-storey building in Alexandria, Egypt's second largest city.