At least 8 people are now known to have died after a 12-storey building collapsed Monday night in the Egyptian capital Cairo. Most casualties were fire-fighters, police or rescuers who tried to put out a blaze in the building. Photo by Aljazeera.
A building in the residential and commercial area of Nasr City in Cairo, Egypt collapsed and killed at least fourteen people, injuring some 40. The building was demolished by a fire that broke in a storeroom. Eleven people are still buried under the wreckage, most of them were trying to evacuate people from the building after the fire broke. There are two soldiers among the victims.