Death toll in Beheira rises to 25 in weather calamity

Sunday 08-11-2015 PM 09:30
Death toll in Beheira rises to 25 in weather calamity
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CAIRO, Nov. 8 (Aswat Masriya) – Twenty-five people have been killed  to date s a result of heavy rainfall and floods in the province of Beheira, north of Cairo, according to state-run MENA news agency.

Of the 25, 16 drowned in the flash floods and the remaining nine were electrocuted in separate incidents.

Two bodies were recovered Sunday, one belonging to a 16-year-old boy found in village in Wadi al-Natrun valley, and another was that of a girl who died by electrocution Abu al-Matameer.

Earlier on Friday, 10 buildings collapsed in Beheira but no casualties were recorded. On the same day, a partial damage occurred in one of the buildings leading to the death of a child and the injury of another person as a result of bad weather conditions in the coastal city of Alexandria.

Another woman was killed in a separate building collapse in Alexandria on Friday.

In October, Alexandria Governor Hany el-Messiry resigned amid a public uproar in the aftermath of heavy rainfall and flooding which left five people dead, including two children.

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