Residents of the village of Bamm in the city of Tala in the governorate of Menoufia (northern Egypt) mourned on Sunday evening five workers who died as a result of their fall in a sewerage sink.
Dozens of Tala residents gathered in front of the central hospital demanding the rights of the victims of the sewerage in the governorate.
According to a statement issued by the province has died five workers and another injured - all aged between the third and fourth decades - as a result of their fall in a sewage drainage village Bemm while they Tzlkha.
Governor Said Abbas decided to open an urgent investigation into the incident, and decided to pay emergency subsidies to the victims.
In recent months, falls in sewage drains have increased, according to local reports, due to incidents of theft of recycled sewer cover.
The causes of death in such incidents vary, mostly as a result of drowning in wastewater or inhalation of toxic methanol, according to local reports.