12 killed as apartment building collapses in Cairo

Rescuers search through the rubble (AP)

A five-storey apartment building has collapsed in the Egyptian capital Cairo, leaving at least 12 people dead, authorities said.

The state-run MENA news agency said rescue teams pulled bodies from the wreckage and sent four survivors to hospital following the collapse in Cairo’s Hadaeq el-Qubbah neighbourhood, roughly two miles from the city centre.