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Hundreds buried in Cairo rockslide
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06 Sep 2008 Sat 04:38 pm |
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İ just heard about it a while ago 
And from i heard that some of the heavy machineries having difficulties reaching the eara.
People there built their houses in the mountain ´geologically its not exactly a mountain,but i dont know what its called´ and using the water harm the stability of the rocks which form the mountain ´what ever its name´.
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06 Sep 2008 Sat 04:42 pm |
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Canli, must be very remote place. I feel so sorry what happened!
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06 Sep 2008 Sat 04:46 pm |
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Actually Ros,i have never been there,but i could see the area from a far while using a high way there,we pass near it.
İts very crowded and not organized,many houses very close to each other,and also on the mountain.
Still people refused to leave there when they built new houses for them.
they have their own business there,and they refused to leave.
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06 Sep 2008 Sat 04:52 pm |
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I was not aware that Egypt has also rocky terrains, Canli.
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06 Sep 2008 Sat 04:59 pm |
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İ dont know what its caled in English really Ros,also it has some scientific name,but we call it Hadaba,people called it mountian
You may understand what is it from those pictures
The picture is large so i posted the link
This is part of Salah El Din Citadel,which have been built also on El Mokatam hill,to protect Cairo in the past,at the time when Cairo´s borders were only inside the citadel walls.
Edited: i managed to resize the picutres,thanks LİR,it works 
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06 Sep 2008 Sat 05:04 pm |
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news article was inaccurate, by saying this happened in Cairo, when in fact it did not happen in Cairo. Thanks for picture, Canli.
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06 Sep 2008 Sat 05:05 pm |
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It´s not a mountain, cause its stoo short to bre a mountain, So its s cientifically a hill, but its a rocky hard hill, so i guess its kind of a mountany hill, I saw it while we were doing some sightseeing, Its by the Mehmet Ali Pasha mosque and the Citadell, It looks kinda big, but For sure its not a mountain, and a lot of ppl live on it it (i think) and it ahs stores and everything.
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06 Sep 2008 Sat 05:07 pm |
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Doudi, pls. look at my previous inserted picture. Sukran
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06 Sep 2008 Sat 05:09 pm |
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news article was inaccurate, by saying this happened in Cairo, when in fact it did not happen in Cairo. Thanks for picture, Canli.
But it actually happened in Cairo Ros,the hill,on Cairo´s borders as i believe,and that area is also in Cairo,at the borders too.
Actually,there are also some Luxury places on the top of that hill,and 5 starts hotle too
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06 Sep 2008 Sat 05:12 pm |
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Doudi, pls. look at my previous inserted picture. Sukran
really thats it??/ when i saw it it looked different, guess it s bigger than it looks.... 
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07 Sep 2008 Sun 04:34 am |
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07 Sep 2008 Sun 04:36 am |
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I feel so sad for these people.
Sorry for such large text, but there doesn´t seem any way to make it smaller.
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07 Sep 2008 Sun 04:37 am |
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Residents criticized their government for its slow response to the tragedy.
Most of the town´s residents were still in bed when the slide occurred at 7 a.m. Saturday. Here, rescuers retrieve a victim´s body from the debris that covered the sprawling Manshiyet Nasr slum
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07 Sep 2008 Sun 05:24 am |
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Residents criticized their government for its slow response to the tragedy.
Most of the town´s residents were still in bed when the slide occurred at 7 a.m. Saturday. Here, rescuers retrieve a victim´s body from the debris that covered the sprawling Manshiyet Nasr slum
Actually,there is no slow response...not this time anyway !
The situations there are bad,the rocks are so heavy,and if they cant use any machineries because of the survivers underneath,so rescue teams are working in a very hard conditions,and afraid to use any equipments now,but still,the mass of the rockets is so big,i have no idea how would they move it
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