Dubai: Three people have been killed after a five-story residential building collapsed in Mit Ghamr city in the Dakahlia Governorate in Egypt, local media reported.
The Security Director of Dakahlia, Raafat Abdel-Baath, said that the security services rushed to the scene and managed to recover three bodies from under the rubble and evacuated them to a hospital.
Investigations into the cause of the collapse are underway.
The incident comes less than a month after 10-story building collapsed in Cairo killing at least 25 people and injuring 75 others.
Train derailed
Also yesterday, a total of 15 passengers were injured after a train derailed in the country’s Sharqiya Governorate, Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population announced. No deaths have been confirmed.