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CAIRO, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- At least 18 people are dead and several others are possibly trapped after an eight-story apartment building collapsed in the Matariya district early Tuesday. Rescue workers are continuing to search for survivors under the rubble in the west Cairo suburb.

Desperate family members joined in the search after the early morning collapse, moving chunks of stone by hand in an effort to find survivors.

About 25 people lived in the building. Authorities said the building collapsed because the landlord illegally added several floors to the old building, a common problem in Egypt.

In 2013, 24 people died and 12 other were injured when an apartment building collapsed in Alexandria. Authorities cited poor maintenance and building specification violations as the cause.

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At least 17 people have been killed after an apartment building in Egypts capital collapsed.

Rescuers and neighbours frantically dug through rubble with their hands to find survivors at the scene in Cairos eastern Matariya district, authorities said.

The collapse highlights the long-standing problem of shoddy construction across Egypt, as neighbours said the seven-storey building had several floors illegally added onto it.

Egyptian developers seeking bigger profits frequently build without permits amid a nationwide housing shortage, rampant corruption and lax government oversight.

The building caved in at around 1.30am as many inside slept, witnesses said.

Bulldozers roared into the neighbourhoods narrow alleys after the collapse, removing chunks of cement, steel rods, scattered clothes and bloody bed sheets. Local residents said workers looked for mattresses in the hope survivors would be found nearby.

Mamdouh Abdel-Qader, the head of Cairo civil defence, said rescuers had recovered 17 bodies from the collapse.

The official MENA news agency said workers pulled eight residents out of the rubble alive. Neighbours said those still buried made desperate mobile phone calls, begging for help.

A man with his daughter was calling me saying they are trapped in darkness, said a dust-covered Ali Abdel-Fattah Ali, a government employee who moonlights as a mechanic in a nearby car repair shop.

I tried to call back but there was no answer. I dont know what happened. His phone is still ringing.

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Cairo: An apartment building collapsed on Tuesday in northern Cairo, leaving 15 people dead, medical officials said.

Rescue teams were searching for survivors and victims through the rubble of the eight-floor building in the crowded district of Al Matariya. Seven people were retrieved alive, the officials said.

Fifteen people died, eight were injured and relatives say another seven are trapped under the rubble, Cairos emergency services deputy director Jamal Al Jalawa said.

Initial investigations found that the landlord had illegally added two extra floors to the building.

The departments chief, General Mamdouh Abdul Qader, said earlier that investigators were still investigating the cause of the collapse but that illegal construction work was suspected.

We dont yet know the cause of the accident but we have been told that two storeys were recently added totally illegally, Abdul Qader said.

A witness on site said rescuers working to clear the debris were struggling to manoeuvre their equipment in a very narrow alleyway.

Relatives of the missing and onlookers were digging with bare hands in the rubble.

Mohammad Al Bishlawy, district prosecutor for eastern Cairo, said he has opened an inquiry and asked for the arrest of the buildings owner.

He blamed the accident on renovation work in a second-floor apartment that has affected the structure of the building and the addition of two floors without permission.

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