Cairo: A building apartment collapsed in a city outside the Egyptian capital, killing at least three people, the media managed by the government reported Thursday.
The rescue team is still looking for the possibility of victims under the rubble of four-story buildings in the city of Shoubra El-Khaima in Qalyubia Province, according to Al-Ahram everyday.
The building collapsed at the end of Wednesday.
The association bar branch in Qalyubia announced that the dead was a lawyer who worked in a law firm in the building owned by one of them.
The Mena news agency officially said the police strolled the area and evacuated a neighboring building for security reasons.
Not immediately known what caused the collapse.
Mena reported that the initial investigation prosecutor showed the building was old but did not say how old.
The building of the apartment collapses often occurs in Egypt, where poor construction is widespread in Shantytowns, the environment of the poor and rural areas.
At least five women died when an apartment building collapsed in June in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria.
Other buildings in Cairo collapsed in March, leaving at least 25 dead.