Two sisters were killed and three others injured late on Monday after their residential building collapsed in the Nile Delta's Sharqiya governorate.

The dead bodies of the two sisters, aged eight and 17, were pulled from the rubble as rescue workers continued to dig through the debris of the building located in Miniya El-Qamh city to find survivors.

The health ministry's undersecretary in Sharqiya, Sherif Makeen, told Al-Ahram Arabic news website that the injured were in a stable condition but two were suffering from fractures and one from a suspected skull fracture.

Makeen said that the injured would need psychological treatment due to the trauma sustained during the collapse.

Following the deadly collapse, Prime Minister Sherif Ismail ordered  the Minister of Local Development Zaki Badr to present a report about the accident in order to hold those responsible accountable.

The four-story building had two illegal floor extensions, Sharqiya's governor Khaled Said said in a press statement on Tuesday.

Building collapses are commonplace in Egypt and usually take place and lives due to violations of building specifications, illegal extensions, and lax construction.