CAIRO - Two women were found alive yesterday after 36 hours entombed beneath the rubble of a Cairo apartment block which caved in on its residents, killing at least 18 people with 90 still missing.
The 11-storey building collapsed on Sunday in Cairo's northern Heliopolis suburb.
Egyptian rescue workers, joined by seven volunteers from the German Red Cross, at dawn pulled out an Egyptian, Ms Noha Fawzi, and her American friend, Ms Samantha Miksche, both suffering from abrasions.
"She [Samantha] was visiting her mom's relatives and they wanted a place to rent. Unfortunately they were looking at the flat when it fell down," Ms Noha Wagih said by telephone by the woman's bedside.