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One child killed in Cairo building collapse - Health Ministry
(ARCHIVE) People and rescue workers stand on the rubble of a collapsed building as they search for survivors in Alexandria January 16, 2013. REUTERS/Stinger
CAIRO, Mar 3 (Aswat Masriya) - One child was killed and two other people were injured when a three-storey building collapsed in Cairo's Abbasseya district on Wednesday, the Health Ministry said.
The Health Ministry dispatched six ambulances to the scene of the collapse, it said in a statement.
Those injured were transferred to the Demerdash Hospital. Health Ministry Spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar told Aswat Masriya that their condition is stable.
Building collapses has become a frequent occurrence in Egypt, especially in the coastal city of Alexandria.
A survey conducted by the Cairo-based Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) in June 2014 concluded that 392 residential buildings collapsed in Egypt from July 2012 until June 2013, killing 192 people and rendering 824 families homeless.
The organisation blamed the frequent building collapses on the "lax enforcement" of laws regulating construction as well as the "lack of proper planning and development."
