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.
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.