New building collapse in Cairo leaves elderly woman dead, others injured

Khalif's incident is one of many building collapses common in Egypt in recent years, resulting from poor construction standards, especially in poor and lower-middle-class areas amid alleged corruption and lack of accountability.

MENA

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Thaer Mansour

Egypt - Cairo

19 July, 2023

Three building collapses took place in Egypt in almost one week. [Getty]

An older woman was killed and two other people injured on Tuesday evening when an old 3-storey building partially collapsed in the Egyptian capital Cairo, the third similar incident in almost a week.

Preliminary investigations indicated that the building, located in the middle-class El-Khalifa neighbourhood, south of Cairo, had received a demolition order in 1990, which has never been put into effect, local state-run Al-Ahram newspaper reported.

Khalif's incident is one of many building collapses common in Egypt in recent years resulting from poor construction standards, especially in poor and lower-middle-class areas amid the alleged corruption and the lack of accountability.

On Monday, a five-storey residential building collapse in Cairo's Hadayiq al-Qubba neighbourhood claimed the lives of 14 people, including children. A seven-storey building fell apart in northern Beheira province a day earlier, leaving four people dead, including a 10-year-old child.

No official comment about the Khalifa incident has been released, while search and rescue operations are underway for possible survivors under the rubble.