Rescuers pulled seven more bodies early on Wednesday out of the rubble of a 12-storey building which collapsed in Egypt's Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, bringing the death toll to 19, the state-run MENA news agency reported. Rescue workers with sniffing dogs continued their search for eight other people feared dead while hope of finding them alive on the third day since the collapse. Only three people were rescued out of some 30, the estimated number of the building residents, according to Maj. Gen. Abdel-Meguid Selim, who spoke to the Associated Press on Tuesday night. «We are in a race against time,» Selim said. «We hope to get as many victims alive as possible,» he added. The local government had previously ordered the building, located in the Loran suburb, to be demolished down or renovated as it was built without authorization more than 25 years ago, according to MENA news agency.
