Baby Found Alive After Egypt Building Collapse Kills 25


Search and rescue workers pulled a 6-month-old baby alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Cairo as the death toll rose to 25, Egyptian officials said.
A 6-month-old boy was pulled alive from the rubble after a nine-story building collapsed in Egypt over the weekend, killing 25, Egyptian officials told the Associated Press.
The apartment building collapsed in the el-Salam neighborhood, in Cairo, Egypt, on Saturday, according to the Cairo Governorate.
The infant’s mother, father and sister had already been found dead, but teams continued to search for his older brother, who was missing, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.
The young boy's condition was stable as of Sunday, according to one official from the country's civil protection agency.
It was not immediately clear what caused the building's collapse. An engineering committee was formed to examine the structural integrity of neighboring buildings, Khalid Abdel-Al, the administrative head of Cairo governorate, said on Saturday.
Building collapses are not uncommon in Egypt, where shoddy construction is widespread in shantytowns, poor neighborhoods and rural areas.
With real estate at a premium in big cities like Cairo and the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, developers seeking bigger profits frequently violate building permits. Extra floors often are added without proper permits.
The government has recently launched a crackdown on illegal buildings, jailing violators and in many cases destroying the buildings.
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