BUILDING COLLAPSES IN ALEXANDRIA
12 BODIES RECOVERED (Rec 7 p.m.) LONDON, July 17. The Cairo correspondent of the Associated Press reports that firemen brought out 12 bodies, mostly of women and children, after a four-storey building collapsed this afternoon in the Labbane district of Alexandria. Five other persons were seriously injured, and a search for further victims is continuing. •
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25859, 19 July 1949, Page 5
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