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/ 30 December 2007
Shoddy materials, illegal construction and a culture of corruption were blamed for the deaths of more than three dozen people buried when a 12-storey apartment building crumbled to the ground in Egypt. Six days after the collapse of the building in the Mediterranean coastal city of Alexandria, 35 bodies had been pulled from the rubble.
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/ 25 December 2007
Rescue workers pulled three more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed block of flats in the Egyptian city of Alexandria overnight, bringing the toll to eight dead with many still missing, a security source said on Tuesday. Emergency services continued their search following Monday’s collapse of the 12-storey building.
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/ 3 September 2007
The editor of an independent Egyptian daily is to face prosecution over his paper’s coverage of the state of President Hosni Mubarak’s health, the head of the journalists’ union said on Monday. Recent speculation about Mubarak has included his hospitalisation, travel abroad for medical treatment and even death.