Today (Sunday) the city of Helwan (south of Cairo) witnessed the collapse of a sewage pit on seven workers while carrying out a maintenance operation, which resulted in the death of two people and the extraction of a third worker who was transferred to the hospital for treatment because he is in a critical condition, while the Civil Protection Forces intensify the search for four others.
And the security services of the Cairo Security Directorate had received a report from the Police Rescue that a hole collapsed on a number of workers, while they were carrying out the process of repairing a sewage pipe, which led to all of them falling into a great depth underground of up to 15 meters and a width of 2 meters, and after the communication, the security services moved Supported by ambulances to the place of the communication, the executive leaders of the governorate moved to follow up the search for missing persons and victims.
Investigations revealed that while workers were repairing a sewage pipe, the pits collapsed on them at a great depth under the ground, and the rescue men struggled to pull them out amidst great difficulty. Equipment has been used to facilitate the search for missing persons.
Mohamed Hefny (Cairo)