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CAIRO -- At least 22 people were killed and 11 injured Wednesday morning when an eight-story building collapsed in Egypt's coastal city of Alexandria, according to the state-run news agency.

Rescue teams searched into the evening for possible survivors under the debris. Gov. Mohammed Atta told the news agency the building had been constructed without a proper license.

Housing Minister Tarek Wafik said Wednesday that the structure was built in 2006. He added that between 2009 and 2012, more than 318,000 buildings across 23 governorates in Egypt were built illegally.

Scores of Egyptians were killed over the course of last year when several residential buildings collapsed in the Mediterranean city.

The collapse of the building came a day after 19 police conscripts were killed when a train jumped the tracks and collided into another train. In November, about 50 children and the driver of a school bus were killed when the bus collided with a train in the rural province of Assiut.

The nation's crumbling infrastructure has become a menacing problem that is likely to fuel unrest and protests against President Mohamed Morsi's new government, which has blamed the recent train collisions on what they say were three decades of corruption under the rule of ousted President Hosni Mubarak.

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