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Seven girls killed as boat sinks in Nile river near Cairo

Seven girls killed as boat sinks in Nile river near Cairo
# 16 July 2010 01:12 (UTC +04:00)
Baku-APA. At least seven girls were killed when a boat sank Thursday evening on the Nile River in Egypt’s Helwan Governorate, south of the capital Cairo, APA reports quoting news.xinhuanet.com web-page.

The boat was carrying 19 girls, among whom eleven was saved and another one is still missing, Helwan security chief Hamed Abdallah told Xinhua.

The boat was chartered by a church in al-Maadi district for a Nile voyage and picnic, and all 19 girls were Egyptian Christians.

The small boat was overloaded and sank down as a result of unbalance.

Helwan Governor Qadri Abu Hussein has inspected the scene and visited the survivors.
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