12:05 p.m
Saturday 07 January 2023
Alexandria – Mohamed Amer:
A 3-storey inhabited house collapsed, on Friday evening, in the Bahri area of the Gomrok neighborhood in Alexandria, while the Civil Protection continues to search for survivors under the rubble.
The Alexandria Governorate Operations Room received a report stating that a house had collapsed, in Zawiyat al-Qalai, behind the Ibn Khaldun clinic in Bahri district. Neighborhood officials, civil protection forces, and the police department moved with the ambulance to the report site.
Examination and inspection showed that the house was an old, inhabited building, consisting of a ground floor and two floors, while eyewitnesses indicated that one person survived and two others were searched under the rubble.
Civil protection forces are continuing to search for survivors under the rubble, and all facilities have been cut off from the house.
A report of the incident was drawn up at the Customs Police Station, in preparation for submission to the Public Prosecution Office to handle the investigation.