An old building in Qasr el-Nile Street, one of the main arteries that runs through downtown Cairo, the urban center of Egypt’s capital, partially collapsed Aug. 15, injuring four people. The building was not an ordinary one.
According to an Aug. 16 statement by the public prosecution, the four-story building, which housed two residential units and several stores, was built in 1941 and registered as a building of special architectural style. The prosecution noted that there had been several orders to restore the listed building in the past, the last of which dated to 1993, but all these orders had been ignored.