‘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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Twin car bomb attacks kill 11 people in eastern Algeria

Two car bomb at tacks in eastern Algeria killed at least 11 people, state radio reported Wednesday, with the country still in shock from a suicide bomber who killed 43 people a day earlier.

At least 31 people were wounded in the latest attacks in the town of Bouira, one on a passenger bus and another near a military headquarters,Algerian radio said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility but an AlQaeda group has staged several attacks in Algeria over the past year and has been involved in clashes with government forces in the oil and gas rich state.

Bouira is part of a so-called "zone of death" it forms with Algiers,Tizi Ouzou and Boumerdes where attacks have been rife.

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