A building has collapsed in the Egyptian capital Cairo, killing five people and wounding 24 others.
The collapse happened in Gesr Giza, east of the Egyptian capital Cairo, yesterday. A statement from the Cairo governorate said that “The governorate’s crisis room was informed at 3:00 am (0100 GMT) of the collapse of a building consisting of a basement, a ground floor and nine (upper) floors,” adding that the governor, Khaled Abdel Aal immediately went to the site and ordered the “establishment of an engineering committee” to evaluate the surrounding buildings.
It is reportedly not the first deadly building collapse in Egypt in recent years – the collapses are attributed to dilapidation and poor adherence to planning regulations.
On Friday two trains collided in southern Egypt, killing at least 32 people and injuring more than 160 in the latest disaster to strike a railway system that has long been plagued by accidents, poor maintenance and mismanagement.
The Egyptian National Railways said someone had activated the emergency brakes in some cars on one train and another train coming from behind crashed into it, causing two passenger cars to overturn.
This tops off the grounding of the Evergreen across the Suez Canal, disrupting 12% of the world’s commercial shipping for an as yet unknown period.
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