‘500 missing' as landslide crushes Cairo shantytown
Hopes of finding survivors trapped under giant boulders began to fade on Sunday, a day after a massive rockslide flattened homes in a north Cairo shantytown, burying whole families under the rubble.
"There is little hope of finding anyone alive," an officer at the scene told AFP. "The heat and dust are unbearable, the people standing here can hardly take it, let alone those trapped inside."
He said residents had been ordered to vacate the area in order to tear down some of the homes to make way for cranes and heavy lifting machinery which had been unable to access the scene of Saturday's accident.
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"There is little hope of finding anyone alive," an officer at the scene told AFP. "The heat and dust are unbearable, the people standing here can hardly take it, let alone those trapped inside."
He said residents had been ordered to vacate the area in order to tear down some of the homes to make way for cranes and heavy lifting machinery which had been unable to access the scene of Saturday's accident.
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