Landslide Hits East Cairo Shanty Town, Kills 20 (Reuters)

Twenty people were killed and 23 injured when a massive rockslide hit a crowded Cairo shanty town on Saturday, sending rocks and boulders crashing down on dozens of houses. Tumbling rocks destroyed many buildings in the Manshiyet Nasser shanty town in eastern Cairo near the Moqattam plateau, its close-packed houses and narrow alleys huddled at the foot of cliffs beside a highway. MENA said parts of the area were being evacuated because new cracks had been seen in the cliff face. Dozens of police and rescue workers were sent to the scene, backed up by fire engines, ambulances and sniffer dogs.    Hundreds of weeping, yelling residents gathered round the cordoned-off site, cursing local authorities and saying they had relatives and friends trapped beneath the rubble."You've just got your hands in your pockets, you're not doing anything!" one man yelled at police standing nearby. "If it were the shura council (upper house of parliament), you'd have had the army in by now!" shouted another. When fire broke out in Egypt's upper house of parliament in August, killing one person, the military were called out to battle the blaze with helicopters. "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, I saw the whole mountain had collapsed," said Hassan Ibrahim Hassan, 80, whose house escaped the destruction.

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