A building collapsed in Alexandria leaving four dead and eight injured on Monday. The two-storey building is the second building to collapse in El-Gomrok neighbourhood; the first of which killed 19 a month ago.

The eight injured in Monday's collapse were taken to Alexandria Central Hospital for medication.

An eleven-storey building collapsed in mid July, as well, leaving nine dead.

Egypt has seen a number of construction disasters over the years, partly owing to building violations or bad maintenance.

At least 11 people were killed in Alexandria, Egypt's second largest city, in 2008 when a four-storey building collapsed late at night as residents slept.

That came a month after a massive rockslide buried a neighbourhood at the foot of a cliff in Cairo, killing more than 100 people.