The Civil Protection and Rapid Rescue Forces in Assiut Governorate in Egypt were able to recover the bodies of two women and a child from under the rubble of the collapsed house, bringing the number of deaths to 14 people.

Major General Wael Nassar, Director of Assiut Security, received a notification from the Rescue Operations Room stating that a four-story inhabited house had collapsed in Darwish Neighborhood, branching off from Riad Street in the East Assiut neighborhood, on Monday.

Civil protection forces recovered 14 bodies and 6 injured people after 25 hours of continuous search.

Civil protection teams sent three fire engines to the vicinity of the collapsed house due to gas leakage from the house’s connections, and also imposed a security cordon around the area.
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Civil protection teams affiliated with the Cairo Security Directorate continued their search for missing persons under the rubble of a collapsed building in the Sahel area, after finding the bodies of four people.

As a precautionary measure, the Cairo Civil Protection Forces evacuated three neighboring buildings from residents, fearing they might collapse.

The five-story building collapsed suddenly after security services received a report from local residents.

Initial investigations indicated that the cause of the collapse was that one of the residents on the first floor was carrying out unlicensed expansion work, which included demolishing one of the load-bearing walls, which led to the disaster.
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