A housewife was killed and two others injured after a building collapsed on Sunday in Alexandria city.
Firefighters, rescue workers, and ambulances rushed to the scene immediately after police received a report on the incident.
Police explained that an old four-story building in Bahary area had collapsed on another adjacent building, which the local authorities evacuated after the incident to maintain the lives of the residents.
Rescue workers managed to save four other people from the debris.
August has seen a spree of building collapses across the nation.
A five-story building collapsed at downtown Cairo on Qasr al-Nil street Saturday morning, injuring four people.
Egypt’s Civil Protection Forces on August 7 retrieved the bodies of eight victims from the rubble of a collapsed five-story house in the al-Ragabi area of al-Mahalla al-Kubra city, Gharbiya Governorate.
The forces earlier recovered the bodies of a woman, Marwa Awad Aboul Enein, and her two children, Mohamed and Eyad.
The bodies of a 45-year-old woman and her two daughters, 21 years old and 17 years old, as well as that of a 13 year-old girl Mona al-Sayed Abdel Fattah, were also pulled from the rubble.
Three injured victims were also rescued from the collapse, and are receiving first aid and treatment in Mahalla al-Kubra General Hospital.
