Rock slide kills 24 in east Cairo slum; hundreds reported missing

Category: World News

Publish Date: 09-06-2008 04:43 PM -0700

Boulders rain down on a shantytown, crushing scores of apartments and homes. Angry residents say people remain trapped while government rescuers just watch.

Hind Hussein returned from the hospital after going into false labor and was nodding off early Saturday morning when the cliff above her shantytown rumbled and boulders the size of tugboats rained down, crushing scores of apartments and houses in a storm of grit and dust.

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