At least eight people dead as building collapses in Cairo

Rescuers search through the rubble of a collapsed six-story apartment building in Cairo (Khaled Elfiqi/AP)

An apartment building collapsed on Tuesday in Egypt’s capital, killing at least eight people, authorities said.

The health ministry said in a statement that the collapse of the six-story building in Cairo’s western neighbourhood of Waili also injured three people, who were hospitalised.