For the third day rains sinking Egypt .. Rising deaths and disruption of maritime navigation and study in Alexandria

Mohamed Seif Eldin-Cairo

For the third day in a row, Egypt is experiencing a bad weather that has killed about 20 people due to heavy rains, especially in coastal cities and central and northern Sinai.

The causes of death varied from road accidents as a result of the flooding of streets, electrocution due to the exposure of wires with lighting poles, and falling from the roofs of the house during the removal of rain water.

The governorate of Alexandria (northern Egypt) on Friday morning to a wave of bad weather and heavy rainfall, led to the flooding of the streets, and stopped shipping traffic in the ports of Alexandria and Dekheila.

In order to ensure the safety and security of students, the Governor of Alexandria, Dr. Abdul Aziz Qansouh decided to suspend classes on Saturday in all schools of the province, due to the instability of weather conditions.

For its part, warned the Meteorological Authority of the continued rainfall in the coastal provinces of Egypt, north and central Sinai, stressing that it will be heavy and thunderous and up to the limit of floods.

In this regard, the Egyptian Council of Ministers appealed to citizens in the northern coasts, Delta, Canal cities, North and Central Sinai, to abide by houses yesterday Friday and not to go out except in cases of extreme necessity, in order to ensure their safety and to prevent traffic jams, and to allow the concerned authorities to remove the accumulated quantities due to heavy rain Expected.

The Council of Ministers - in a statement on Thursday evening - also called on citizens to avoid being under billboards or beside lighting poles and electricity booths or under the old balconies.

During the past two days, a number of people have been killed by electric shocks due to the rain on the lighting poles, which led some young people to cover these columns with plastic bags and pipes, in order to protect children from being subjected to electric shocks due to rain.

The Egyptian government justifies the sinking of the streets because of its financial inability to build a network to drain rain, prompting social media pioneers to launch the label "our streets first of your palaces", condemning those statements, which they described as "shocking."