Some 16 persons killed in a building collapse in Cairo

Egyptian security sources said that rescue workers on Monday continued searching for survivals among the remains of a residential building in Cairo which collapsed, and that the last found body was number 16.

The sources added that this last body is for a man ( 52) died while trying to rescue his brother's family. Earlier this man rescued his wife and children but he returned back to the six-storey building in search for his relatives among the ruins.

The man's brother, his wife and their child died when the building collapsed on Sunday at dawn.

The Egyptian police is making investigations with contractors, a consultant engineer and workers who started maintenance works in this building before its collapse.