CAIRO (AP) — A senior government official says the death toll from the collapse of an apartment building in Egypt’s coastal city of Alexandria has risen to 14.
Assistant Interior Minister Abdel-Aziz Tawfeeq said rescue teams were continuing to search for survivors under the rubble of the eight-story building that collapsed early today.
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