Cairo Governor Ibrahim Saber said in a statement that the injured were taken to local hospitals while authorities evacuated nearby buildings as a precaution. The building, constru

CAIRO (AP) — An apartment building collapsed on Tuesday in Egypt’s capital, killing at least eight people, authorities said. The Health Ministry said in a statement that the collapse of the six-story building in Cairo’s western neighborhood of Waili also injured three people, who were hospitalized.

Eight people were killed and three more injured when a six-storey residential building collapsed in central Cairo on Tuesday, Egypt's health ministry said.

At least eight people were killed and three injured when a six-story apartment building collapsed on Tuesday in Cairo’s Waili neighborhood, according to Egypt’s Health Ministry. Cairo Governor Ibrahim Saber said in a statement that the injured were taken to local hospitals while authorities evacuated nearby buildings as a precaution.

A building collapse in Cairo claimed the lives of at least eight people on Tuesday. The collapse of the six-story building, situated in the western neighborhood of Waili, also left three individuals injured and requiring hospitalization,