Built in France, the main structure was originally destined to be a railway station in Cairo, but the deal fell through and so the President of Haiti Florvil Hyppolite had it shipped over in 1891, and there it stood until it was destroyed by the earthquake of 2010.

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Giza Gov. Ali Abdul Rahman, who offered the preliminary death toll, said the incident happened at Badrasheen station in the city just south of Cairo.

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