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The 2008 Cairo landslide happened on September 6, 2008, in el-Deweika, an informal settlement in the Manshiyat Naser neighborhood of east Cairo, Egypt. 119 people died in the rockslide.〔(Egypt jails government officials over Cairo rockslide ) BBC 〕 Boulders weighing as much as 70 tons rolled into the shantytown following the landslide.〔(Following the rockfall, Egyptian slum dwellers have little more than hope ) Christian Science Monitor, March 20, 2009.〕 After most of the neighborhood had been flattened, those families still living in the slum were evicted and any remaining buildings were flattened by the government.〔 As a result hundreds of families were left homeless and many still live in squalor near the site of the disaster, despite government promises to find them homes.〔(Cairo's poorest risk being buried alive in their homes ) Amnesty International〕 The cause of the landslide has not been definitively determined, but theories included leaked sewage from development projects that eroded rocks.〔(Emaar accused of culpability in Duweiqa rockslide ) ''Daily News'', Egypt.〕〔(Compounding the Loss ) ''Al-Ahram'', Egypt.〕 An internal investigation determined that the slide was caused by "fate" and no one would be blamed for it.〔(Egypt’s Deadly Infrastructure Problems )〕 Amnesty International reports that thousands of Egyptians still continue to live in unsafe slums.〔 In May 2010, a court found Mahmoud Yassin, a Cairo deputy governor, guilty of negligence and sentenced him for 5 years of imprisonment. Seven other officials were sentenced to 3 years each. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2008 Cairo landslide」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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