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Toll tops 100 at Cairo rockslide site

The death toll from a rockslide that buried dozens of homes in a Cairo slum earlier this month has risen to at least 101, a security official said on Monday.

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  • Published: 23:53 September 22, 2008
  • Gulf News

Cairo: The death toll from a rockslide that buried dozens of homes in a Cairo slum earlier this month has risen to at least 101, a security official said on Monday.

Soldiers and emergency services have tunnelled underneath the huge boulders to search for bodies after a cliff face collapsed on homes in Manshiyet Nasser on September 6.

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