Egyptian rescuers are undertaking a massive recovery operation to uncover survivors of a rockslide in a northern Cairo shantytown.
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Egypt stops a 92-year-old man from marrying a 17-year-old girl ... people were killed and dozens more injured after at least eight giant boulders, some as large as houses, flattened homes at the bottom of a hill in the slum. It is unclear how many people remain trapped under the rubble. Officials have had difficulties getting heavy machinery to the site, forcing rescuers and relatives of the missing to use their bare hands and simple tools to try and find survivors. Local residents blame construction work on the hill for causing the disaster.
(Deutsche Welle)
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