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Death toll mounts after Egypt boat tragedy
 [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The bodies of 162 people had been pulled from the waters off the Egyptian coast by Friday, two days after a boat carrying hundreds of Dozens more are feared dead, said Mohammed Sultan, the governor of Beheira, who provided The News Agency that Dare Not be Named with the latest corpse count. He also said that the search operation is still ongoing. Many of them are believed to be children and women who were unable to swim away when the boat sank. Wahdan el-Sayyed, the front man of the Nile Delta province of Beheira, provided the latest figures and told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the search operation was ongoing. Posted by: Fred 2016-09-24 |
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