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| Deadly rockslide hits Cairo homes | Deadly rockslide hits Cairo homes |
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| At least 18 people have been killed by a rockslide which destroyed homes in northern Cairo, emergency services say. | At least 18 people have been killed by a rockslide which destroyed homes in northern Cairo, emergency services say. |
| Dozens of houses in a shanty town east of central Cairo were hit by huge boulders and rocks, reports said. | Dozens of houses in a shanty town east of central Cairo were hit by huge boulders and rocks, reports said. |
| Witnesses said a six-storey building in the impoverished district below the Muqattam hills had been completely reduced to rubble. | |
| Some people are believed to be still trapped in the rubble and police have cordoned off the area. | Some people are believed to be still trapped in the rubble and police have cordoned off the area. |
| "It was horror," said Hassan Ibrahim Hassan, 80, whose house escaped the destruction. | |
| "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." | |
| Witnesses described seeing hundreds of distraught people gathered around the site of the destruction, saying they had relatives and friends trapped under the rubble. |