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At least 17 killed in Egypt after seven-storey building collapses

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25-11-2014 | 03:19

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At least 17 killed in Egypt after seven-storey building collapses

At least 17 people were killed when a seven-story building collapsed in the western Cairo suburb of Matariya early on Tuesday.

Several others are feared to have perished under the rubble.

Rescue workers and neighborhood volunteers dug through the rubble with their hands, searching for survivors.

Eight residents of the building in the Matariya district were pulled out alive.

Officials and neighbors said that the building owner defied a court ruling issued five years ago and illegally built several extra floors on top of the original four-story structure.

Building collapses are common in Egypt, where shoddy construction is widespread in shantytowns, poor city neighborhoods and rural areas.

But the Matariya building collapse appeared to be avoidable.

Neighbors said they had won a court order to remove the illegal floors but local authorities - either out of negligence or complicity - failed to execute the ruling.

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