The death toll from the collapse of a block of flats in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria has risen to 14, the official Mena news agency reported on Wednesday.
The toll could climb even further as about 15 people remain trapped in the rubble of the flattened 12-storey building, a security official said on Tuesday.
The bodies of two people were pulled out on Tuesday night from the wreckage of the building in the Loran district of Alexandria, Egypt’s second city with a population of about four million.
A lone survivor was rescued on Tuesday, 24 hours after the apartment block collapsed, one of the latest such disasters in Egypt.
Building collapses are a frequent occurrence in Egypt. Many structures are unauthorised and not built according to regulations or with poor materials.
Two people were killed in May in the Cairo working-class district of Sayyeda Zeinab when an old building collapsed as workers were restoring it.
In October last year, seven people were killed when a four-storey building collapsed in the Egyptian delta city of Mansura. — Sapa-dpa, Sapa-AFP