Hundreds buried in Cairo rockslide
Sunday, September 7th, 20087/9/08
Up to 500 people are feared to have been buried in their homes after a mountain landslide crushed a town on the outskirts of Egypt’s capital. At least 30 people have been declared dead and 35 injured after at least eight rocks, some measuring 30m high, buried more than 50 homes in the poor district of Manshiyet Nasron on Saturday, officials said. A six-storey building was reduced to rubble by the rockfall, one witness said. Hassan Ibrahim Hassan, 80, whose house escaped the destruction, said: “It was horror. “The power went out, we heard a loud bang like an earthquake, and I thought this house had collapsed. “I went out and I saw the whole mountain had collapsed.”
