500 Missing Under Rockslide in Cairo

At least 18 people were killed, 22 others wounded today, 500 people are missing under the big rocks, Saturday, the collapse of some big lumps of rock on Mountain Mokattam dozens of houses in the area of indiscriminate restrictions north-east of Cairo.

The security sources said it expected to increase the number of dead where hundreds are still missing under the rubble of houses destroyed completely, which are mostly “nesting housing” uninhabitable security.

The news agency Reuters from eyewitnesses that a six-story building turned into debris as a result of collapse, while the initial estimates to the collapse of 30 houses in the accident under the rubble.

And knows this region overcrowded slums large population; where poor families live in the entire sometimes one room in many buildings.

The news media images of hundreds of families who are screaming and crying, and neighbors gathered around the venue. They criticize mass of local authorities; what the perceived slowness in dealing with the incident, pointing to the rubble in which he guided the destiny of relatives and friends of the disappeared beneath them.

The relief effort is slow in moving freshman, did not reach the point where timely equipment for digging amid the rubble to save survivors. Most of the excavation work carried out by bereaved relatives and neighbors are looking for survivors or bodies under the pile of rock and debris.

2 Responses to “500 Missing Under Rockslide in Cairo”

1. roentarre says:

   September 9, 2008 at 1:32 PM

   great post.

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