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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tigerlily: [QB] [b]Muqattam Death Toll Rises to 51, Armed Forces Warn of New Rockslides [/b] 9/9/2008 Yesterday, rescue teams and firefighters took 14 bodies out of the rubbles of the Muqattam Mountain rocks, setting the death toll at 51 plus 57 wounded. Cairo Governor Abdel Azim Wazir said he would not declare the final number of the killed and wounded until rescue operations were over. Security sources said between 15 and 20 people were still missing, claiming they were probably under the rubble. Dozens of local residents from Duweika and Bakheet demonstrated yesterday in front of Manshiet Nasser Municipality to protest against officials' refusal to meet them and the slow pace at which these people were given alternative apartments. Some of them clashed with the police. Security bodies cordoned off the area and banned the media from getting there. They also refused to let a delegation of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) into the area to provide aid. The operations aimed at sheltering the victims of the accident are extremely difficult as the area is overcrowded with tents, so much so that whole families were forced to sleep in the streets. Meanwhile, President Mubarak ordered to provide alternative apartments to the victims and called on the government to start taking measures to tackle shantytowns. "We intervened immediately without waiting for aid requests and I sent eight rescue teams and winches," said Civil Defense Chief of Staff Gamal Abdel Aziz. He pointed out that his teams managed to take 25 bodies out of the rubble and save 23 wounded. He added it was difficult to know exactly when the rescue operations would be over, as the streets are narrow and bumpy and the rocks are huge. He warned about new possible rockslides in the area, which prompted the police to evacuate the houses. Brigadier General Mohamed Ayad from the Armed Forces Transportation Department said that 15 trucks were bringing people to the relief camps in Fustat, while seven vehicles were providing 5,000 meals a day to the victims. People's Assembly Speaker Fathi Sorour called for a joint meeting between the Housing and Local Government Committees next Thursday to discuss the disaster and its causes. He also invited the housing and local development ministers and the Cairo governor to attend the meeting. Some opposition and independent MPs called on the government to step down, saying in urgent statements that it had failed to face the crisis. Mustafa Bakry criticized the primitive ways of the rescue operations, while Dr. Gamal Zahran called for the establishment of a national anti-disaster organ. The chairman of an Afro-Asian forum on water and environment, Mahmoud el-Sawi, filed a lawsuit against the President, the Cairo governor and the Muqattam Municipality chief to force them to stop licenses for further buildings in the plateau. http://almasry-alyoum.com/article2.aspx?ArticleID=177956 [/QB][/QUOTE]
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