1996年10月27日下午6时30分,埃及首都开罗市东北部阿卜杜拉·努尔大街上突然传出一声巨响,一幢12层居民住宅楼在一片烟雾中坍塌了。顷刻之间,楼上近百名居民就被埋在瓦砾之下,高楼变成数十米高的残砖碎瓦堆。该楼1971年建成,早已破烂不堪,1973年市政府就曾决定将其拆除。该楼在建时只有5层,1991年后,由于当地房地产价格上涨,房主不但没有拆 At 6:30 pm on October 27th, 1996, a loud noise came out of Abdullah Nur Street in the northeastern part of Cairo, Egypt. A 12-story residential building collapsed in a cloud of smoke. In an instant, nearly a hundred residents upstairs were buried under rubble, and the tall buildings became tens of meters high. The building was completed in 1971 and it has already been tattered. In 1973, the city government decided to demolish it. The building was only 5 stories high when it was built. After 1991, due to the increase in local real estate prices, the homeowner was not demolished.