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Rescuers pull out more bodies from Cairo rockslide site

The death toll from a rockslide in Cairo earlier this month rose to 101 after rescuers pulled out five more bodies from the rubble, according to reports on Friday.

  • Agencies
  • Published: 16:00 September 19, 2008
  • Gulf News

Cairo: The death toll from a rockslide in Cairo earlier this month rose to 101 after rescuers pulled out five more bodies from the rubble, according to reports on Friday.

Rescuers have started to break a rock to free 17 victims of one house crushed under it, the Al Masri Al Youm newspaper reported.

Many houses were destroyed and scores of people buried after a rockslide in the shanty town of Al Deweiqa on September 6.




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