A five-storey residential building yesterday in the Al-Kubba district of Cairo, Egypt, crumbled leading to no less than 13 fatalities. Seven victims were members of the identical family.
Several others sustained accidents, and responders from the Civil Defence Authority rescued nine survivors. Charges have been made towards the respective property owner, contractor and staff linked to the collapse.
A sobering scene was unveiled yesterday, as a five-storey apartment block situated in the coronary heart of Cairo, the bustling capital of Egypt, abruptly collapsed. Lifetime led to the unwelcomed deaths of thirteen residents, seven of whom were heartbreakingly from the identical household. The catastrophe inflicted further wounds, severely injuring a large number of survivors who had been promptly tended to by the local Civil Defence Authority.
The catastrophe elicited a direct response from the Civil Defence Authority who rescued nine fortunate survivors from the particles. Still, tragically, the official statement reads…
“Eight others have succumbed to the collapse, while five others managed to flee the collapsing edifice on time.”
All of those unfortunate people had been occupants of the vicinity in question through the incident, and their existence was all of a sudden interrupted by this unexpected catastrophe, reported The Straits Times and Reuters.
To add further context to this story, the collapse is blamed on current structural alterations undertaken by a resident of a first-floor flat. Despite pleas from neighbours in opposition to their actions, the partitions had been nonetheless dismantled. Following these revelations, the prosecutor’s office issued orders for the arrest of the building owner, the contractor in command of the work, and the employees concerned, to facilitate interrogations..