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3 killed in Egypt building collapse

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Press Trust of India Cairo
At least three persons were killed and eight others injured today after a building collapsed due to heavy rains in Egypt's port city of Alexandria.

The heavy rains lashed the coastal city of Alexandria early today, resulting in the four-storey residential building getting collapsed in Abu Kir area, a Ministry of Health official said.

Three persons were killed and eight others severely injured. The building housed eleven families, the official said, adding that the injured were rushed to a nearby hospital.

Security forces, meanwhile, were busy searching for any survivors trapped in the debris.

The building collapsed because it was an "old building", a senior official of the Civil Security Administration in Alexandria Security Directorate said.
 

Alexandria has been witnessing heavy rains that devastated parts of the city since Monday.

The crisis led Hany el-Missiry, the governor of the Mediterranean city, to resign following the death of at least six people due to the flooding in the city.

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First Published: Oct 28 2015 | 3:32 PM IST

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