Eight dead in Cairo building collapse: health ministry

Cairo: Eight people were killed and three more injured when a six storey residential building collapsed in central Cairo on Tuesday, Egypt s health mi...

Cairo: Eight people were killed and three more injured when a six-storey residential building collapsed in central Cairo on Tuesday, Egypt's health ministry said.

Nine ambulances were dispatched to the scene as rescuers worked to "lift rubble and search for any wounded or bodies", health ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar said in a statement.

"I woke up to a sound of a huge explosion," Waleed Mohamed, 38, told AFP near the site of the rubble.

He said he and fellow neighbours ran "towards the building and saw it collapsed, the gas pipe exploded and everything was destroyed," he said.