Egypt: An investigation into the deaths of 9 following the collapse of a building in Cairo
While the Civil Protection and Rescue Forces and Cairo Governorate agencies are still searching for people under the rubble of a four-storey residential property in the Hadayek al-Qubba area (east of the Egyptian capital, Cairo); The Public Prosecution office launched investigations into the incident, which resulted in “the death of 9 people and the injury of 4 residents of the property. They were taken to the hospital for treatment.”
A team from the Public Prosecution office moved to inspect the site of the accident, where the preliminary inspection showed that the cause of the collapse of the property was “the owner of the first floor of the property carrying out violating acts without permission from the neighborhood by demolishing one of the internal load-bearing walls for the purpose of expansion, which affected the property and led to its collapse.”
In a related context, the head of the Administrative Prosecution Authority, Counselor Hafez Abbas, ordered an urgent investigation into the collapse of the property.
The operations room of the General Administration of Civil Protection in Cairo had received a report (Monday) of the collapse of a 4-storey property in the Ezbet Makkawi area of Hadayek El-Kobba, so the Civil Protection forces immediately moved to remove the rubble and rescue the residents of the property.
The collapse of the “Qubba Gardens” property came hours after the “Rashid Building” accident in Buhaira Governorate, which resulted in 4 deaths, and 13 people with fractures and scattered wounds throughout the body.
In addition, the official Middle East News Agency in Egypt quoted a security source as saying that “the security services managed to arrest the person responsible for the collapse of the Hadayek al-Qobba property.” The security source explained that “the accused is a resident of the ground floor of the property, and that he recently carried out some finishing work and removed walls inside his apartment, which affected the structural condition of the property and caused its collapse,” indicating that the necessary legal measures were taken against him.
An Egyptian citizen passes by the collapsed property in Cairo (Hadayek al-Qobba group on Facebook).
In a government interaction with the accident, the Minister of Social Solidarity in Egypt, Nevin Al-Kabbaj, directed “the speed of movement and the immediate presence of relief teams at the scene of the accident,” stressing “the need to intensify efforts towards helping the families, and providing the necessary support to the families of the victims and the injured, as directed by the Crescent Teams.” The Egyptian Red is present at the site to provide aspects of care.
And the Egyptian minister decided to “disburse an amount of 60,000 pounds to the family of each deceased, as well as disburse aid to the injured, in addition to monitoring property losses after the end of the inventory operations.”
He also directed the Egyptian Minister of Local Development, Hisham Amna, to “follow up the efforts of the civil protection and rescue forces and the governorate agencies to search for people under the rubble and evacuate the properties adjacent to the collapsed property, as a precaution, to indicate the extent of their impact from the collapse.”
For his part, the governor of Cairo, Khaled Abdel-Al, decided to “form an engineering committee to examine the collapsed property in Hadayek al-Qubba and evacuate the properties adjacent to the collapsed property, as a precaution, to show the extent of their impact from the collapse.”
Meanwhile, Representative Sayed Nasr, a member of the Egyptian House of Representatives (parliament), told Asharq Al-Awsat that “all executive and security leaders have been at the site of the collapse since (Monday morning) to deal with the results of the accident, follow up on the operations of removing rubble, and exhuming the bodies of the victims.” Pointing out that «there is cooperation and coordination between him and the authorities concerned with crises within the province to limit the losses, as well as provide all services to the families affected by the collapse of the property, and the arrival of the aid due to the injured».
2023-07-17 23:02:42
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