The Civil Protection and Rapid Rescue Forces in Assiut Governorate in Egypt were able to recover the bodies of two women and a child from under the rubble of the collapsed house, bringing the number of deaths to 14 people.
Major General Wael Nassar, Director of Assiut Security, received a notification from the Rescue Operations Room stating that a four-story inhabited house had collapsed in Darwish Neighborhood, branching off from Riad Street in the East Assiut neighborhood, on Monday.
Civil protection forces recovered 14 bodies and 6 injured people after 25 hours of continuous search.
Civil protection teams sent three fire engines to the vicinity of the collapsed house due to gas leakage from the house’s connections, and also imposed a security cordon around the area.
For its part, the Health Directorate sent 10 ambulances, and the governorate used the Al-Fath Center’s rapid rescue equipment to speed up the operations of removing the rubble and searching for the remaining residents of the property.
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