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Egypt: Angry mob locks health minister inside local hospital

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Egyptian authorities and witnesses say villagers have locked the health minister and a provincial governor inside a local hospital room after allegedly contaminated water caused more than 50 residents to become ill.

 

Health Ministry official Amr Qandil says a hospital in the Nile Delta province of Menoufia, 40 miles north of Cairo, on Tuesday received dozens of people vomiting, feverish and with severe cases of diarrhea. (AP)

 

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