Tuesday
20Mar2007
Fire in Sayyeda
This is not looking good at all, the sky over Sayyeda Zeinab mosque keeps getting darker...I've also been hearing blasts with flames shooting up, as if gaz bottles inside that building blew up. Let's hope that Cairo's fire fighters are up to it, I start to hear their sirenes, finally.
Update: The smoke is gone.
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Reader Comments (7)
Can you scale down the picture? It overruns the page. Thanks.
http://harakamasria.org/node/9237
this doesnt look good...
Is this a cheap and effective way to get rid of the place and its inhabitants? Just wonder!!!
Tom, you'll be glad to hear everyone is free. State Security kept them in a private car for a few hours to prevent them from protesting the constitutional amendments in front of Parliament.
It seems to have made al-Jazeera:
http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A9E1DB84-2A93-4D92-A0A3-8049626073FF.htm
Al Ahram reported today that 350 families were made homeless by the fire.
[...] since the morning, and protesting peacefully in the street, after more than 250 houses were burnt down two days ago, and no compensation or aid was given to the [...]