Three people dead in building collapse in Alexandria

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Mon, 18 Feb 2019 - 04:25 GMT

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The collapsed building number 4 in Al-Quds Street, Sidi Gaber, Alexandria, April 6, 2018 – Egypt Today

The collapsed building number 4 in Al-Quds Street, Sidi Gaber, Alexandria, April 6, 2018 – Egypt Today

CAIRO – 18 February 2019: Three people were announced dead in a building collapse in Karmouz district, Alexandria. Alexandria Civil forces managed to recover all of the victims' bodies and moved them to Kom El Dikkamorgue.

According to a statement issued by Security Directorate of Alexandria, the three-floor building was surrounded by security forces until all needed medical and legal procedures were finished.

In April 2018, three other people were announced dead, and three were injured as a result of abuilding collapse.

In December 2018,WaelEzzat, head of Central Administration for Development Projects in the Council of Ministers' Slum Development Fund, announced that the unsafe informal areas across Egypt will be developed by the end of 2019.

“We are implementing a specific strategy and a national plan [to develop Egypt’s slums],” Ezzat referred during an interview with “This Morning” program on Extra News channel.

Previously, Khaled Siddiq, executive director of the Development Fund for Slums, said that Egypt will be declared a slum-free country by the end of 2019, referring that around LE 14 billion have been allocated until now for developing 80 percent of the slums.

Siddiq added that the total number of Egypt’s slums is 351 areas; 80 percent of which has been finished in the past four years and the remaining 20 percent will be developed by the end of 2019.

He further remarked that Port Said, Wadi El-Gedid, Fayoum, Menoufia and Suez were announced slum-free cities by the end of 2018, pointing out that 215,000 housing units were developed in these areas.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi has sought to tackle housing problems in Egypt, and a plan was set to develop many unsafe areas in Cairo, which has the majority of Egypt’s slums, and to re-house residents of Egypt’s most dangerous slums. The government divided the slums into two categories. The first is the dangerous slums; the government pledged to eliminate dangerous slums by the end of 2018.

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