An eleven-storey building collapsed in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria on Saturday, destroying three neighbouring homes, police said, as rescue teams searched for survivors.
Witnesses said the building was home to four families and a bakery, but it was not immediately possible to confirm how many tenants there were.
The country has seen a number of construction disasters over the past years, partly owing to building violations or bad maintenance.
At least 11 people were killed in Alexandria in 2008 when a four-storey building collapsed late at night as residents slept.
That came a month after a massive rock slide buried a neighbourhood at the foot of a cliff in Cairo, killing more than 100 people.
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