“Rebar, schmebar...it will stay up if it is the will of Allah.”
Posted on 03/27/2021 4:03:54 PM PDT by dynachrome
The death toll from the collapse of a nine-story apartment building in Cairo has climbed to 18 people, according to Egyptian state media.
The building collapsed in the Egyptian capital early Saturday. State newspaper Al-Ahram said that search and rescue workers recovered the bodies over the course of the day.
Excavators could be seen digging through the debris in the el-Salam neighborhood on Saturday morning. Police cordoned off the area, keeping back the curious and people apparently looking for relatives in the building.
“They took four people out in front of me, who looked like they were almost gone,” said Mohamamed Mostafa, a resident of the neighborhood.
At least 24 others were injured and taken to hospitals, according to a morning statement by Khalid Abdel-Al, the administrative head of Cairo governorate. The tally of those killed by his office stayed at nine as of Saturday evening.
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“Rebar, schmebar...it will stay up if it is the will of Allah.”
If this were Havana- the culprit would be recycler/scavengers who are harvesting the structural steel out of buildings.
Not knowing the details of this building, I would have some questions. When was this built? Was it during the Nasser regime, when Egypt was a Soviet client? If so, was this building similar to the Plattenbau design common in Eastern Europe?
The hard part is acting surprised, right?
Like in the Caliph Baraq era when the economic stats were always “worse than expected”
Holy mackerel. That does look like it was entirely Un-reinforced.
I think they just had a train crash too in the last day or so.
Ban Assault Apartments!
“train crash too”
yup. The story is that someone pulled the e-stop cord and a following train ran into it. Dunno how that happens if distancing rules are followed.
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