At least five people were killed when a 12-story building collapsed Monday in Egypt's Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, police officials and witnesses said, according to AP. At the scene Monday, rescue workers were busy sieving through the rubble. An old woman was pulled out alive from under the debris, a police official said. The official said residents were still believed trapped under piles of bricks and concrete slabs of the building in the eastern Al-Raml district of the city. The police could not immediately explain the reasons for the collapse of the building, said to have been built in 1978.
