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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Samy Magdy

They worked for years in Libya. Now an Egyptian village mourns scores of its men killed in flooding

ASSOCIATED PRESS

The 42-year-old Egyptian farmer was watering his crops along the Nile River south of the capital of Cairo and scrolling on his mobile phone when he learned that two of his sons were dead.

Ashraf Sadawy Abdel-Fattah saw a list on social media with names of Egyptians killed in the horrific flooding that tore through the city of Derna in neighboring Libya on Sunday night.

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