In the latest of the all too frequent tragedies relating to Egypt’s housing sector, three residential buildings collapsed in the central Cairo district of Rod al-Farag earlier this week leaving two people dead, including a four-year-old girl, and another seven injured. Cairo governor Atef Abdel Hamid said that the initial collapse of one of the buildings led to two adjacent buildings collapsing as well, state-run al-Ahram Arabic reported. While two of them were completely destroyed, the third saw the collapse of two of its three floors. Civil Protection personnel were dispatched to the scene of the incident to search through the rubble and transfer the injured to nearby hospitals. The incident occurred on the al-Teraa street in the al-Brens neighborhood in Rod-al Farag, located in the largely underserved working-class Shoubra area. Despite their collapse, district head of Rod al-Farag Abdel Qader Abdel Khaleq said that one of the buildings had been renovated in 2012, privately-run Youm7 reported. City administration officials went to the scene to inspect the damage and initiate an investigation into the cause of the collapses. The families who lived in the collapsed buildings, as well as those…
Three Buildings Collapse in Cairo Leaving 2 Dead Amid Growing Housing Demand
December 15, 2017
