Rescue
teams battled to free 15 people trapped in the rubble of a Cairo apartment
block early Tuesday after it collapsed during the night, killing at least 10
others, AFP reports.
The
Egyptian capital's emergency services chief General Mamduh Abdelkader said that
investigators were still probing the cause of the collapse in the poor eastern
neighbourhood of Matariya but that illegal construction work was suspected.
"Ten
people have been killed and we fear that number may rise as 15 people are
trapped in the rubble," Abdelkader told AFP.
"We
don't yet know the cause of the accident but we have been told that two storeys
were recently added totally illegally."
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