the collapse of the eight-storey building in Matariya, northeast Cairo, rose to 15, the head of Cairo's General Directorate for Civil Protection told MENA.
Mamdouh Abdel Kader said eight people were wounded in the collapse.
He had announced earlier that 11 bodies were retrieved from underneath the debris.
Abdel-Kader said civil defense teams are working to remove the rubble and retrieve the trapped residents of the building