Cairo landslide kills five
2008-09-06 12:01
Cairo - Five people were killed and eight injured when a rockslide hit a shanty town in Cairo on Saturday, with the death toll expected to rise, security sources said.
Dozens of houses of Manshiyet Nasser shanty town were completely destroyed by boulders and rocks, the sources said, and police have cordoned off the area.
Eyewitnesses described hundreds of weeping and screaming family members and neighbours gathered around the site of the destruction, saying they had relatives and friends trapped beneath the rubble, possibly dead.
- Reuters