Egypt building collapse leaves 17 dead The Governor of Alexandria told Egyptian state news agencies that the building had been built without a licence, and a health official explained that a number of actions and violations had been filed against it since it was built five years ago. The disaster comes a day after a train crash in northern Egypt which killed 19 and rekindled memories of two months ago when 51 children died on a school bus when a train collided with it on a level crossing. Wednesday's train wreck led to protests on Tuesday at train stations in Cairo, Alexandria and a third city in the Nile Delta. Demonstrators were protesting what they said was official negligence in maintaining and upgrading the country's ageing rail network. The incidents have asked searching questions of Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi who came to power in June last year. However the Muslim Brotherhood dominated government blames Egypt's infrastructure problems on the 30 years of corruption that proceeded them under ousted president Hosni Mubarak.