Rescuers try to free survivors
26/12/2007 10:36  - (SA)  

Woman rescued from rubble Egypt block collapse toll at 8 Egypt: 5 die in 11-storey crash

Alexandra - 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 around 15 people remain trapped in the rubble of the flattened 12-storey building, a security official told AFP 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.

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