The incident occurred near the Kharga Oasis, Egypt, site of a famed Roman fort [Getty]
Five Egyptians are feared dead after a freak landslide in southern Egypt‘s Tarwan Mountains region on Sunday.
Civil protection units retrieved the bodies of Mustafa Ali Hamid Mohammed, 45, and Mohammed Ali Mohammed Ali, 44, north of Kharga City, in the New Valley Governorate.
Work with cranes and excavators to remove the remaining rubble scattered across the accident area is underway in a bid to find the other three missing people.Â
Major General Mohammed Hamed, head of security for the New Valley governorate, was notified of the incident on Sunday, with ambulances and rescue teams immediately dispatched to the area.
The oasis area where the landslide occurred is owned by the Egptian military-run National Service Projects Organisation and location of several important agricultural projects.
Following a decree issued by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in 2023 (No. 17), Egypt’s military became the largest owner of developable land in the country.
The decree also stipulated that two kilometres of desert territory on either side of 31 major highways in Egypt would be allocated to the military.
This is an edited translation from our Arabic edition
