A building collapsed at the early morning hours of Saturday in eastern Cairo’s Gesr al-Sweis area, killing at least eight people and injuring at least 29 others. At Saturday dawn, Civil Protection Forces rescued a six-month-old girl from the ruins of the collapsed property, with the search for her parents still underway. The police placed a security cordon around the property to make way for the Civil Protection Forces and ambulances to recover the residents from the remnants of the collapsed property. Relatives of the building’s residents said that six Sudanese workers at a clothes workshop were among the inhabitants of the building. Cairo Governor Khaled Abdel-Aal decided to form an engineering committee to examine all properties adjacent to the collapsed building and indicate the extent to which they were impacted by the collapse.

Source: Egypt Independent March 27, 2021 10:18 UTC