By SPA,
Cairo, Egypt : The death toll from a devastating rock slide that buried a shanty town has risen to 38, officials said Monday.
A total of 38 bodies have been pulled from the site of Saturday’s disaster, the country’s Health Ministry said in a statement carried by the state news agency “MENA”. Another 57 people were injured, with 21 still in hospitals, the ministry said.
Aboul-Ela Amin Mohammed, the head of the earthquake department at the National Research Institute for Astronomy and Geophysics, said the entire plateau remains in danger of further collapse.
Haidar Baghdadi, the parliamentary representative of the area, told AP that 388 apartments from this complex would be made available soon to those who lost their homes.