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Al Choraniah River Crossing Boats in Sohag are floating Coffins and No one knows!!
The Land Center has warned several weeks ago of the recurrence of incidents boats carrying citizens between the River Nile Islands and regrets status of the sinking of 9 citizens, including 4 women and 5 children from Al Choranih Island during their transit to the island of Maragheh This is the third such incident in less than a year as 21 people sank during a Attempting to ride to Anchorage Lynch Abu Kerkas in day Eid al-Fitr in addition to the incident contagious village of El-Hadji Qandil Bedier Mawwas which resulted in the sinking of 19 citizens.
The inhabitants of the island saved 10 citizens who were on their way to the sinking and are searching for 6 citizens of other victims of the accident.
The reports showed that initial inspections of the accident on the presence of a large negligence on the part of those responsible for maintaining and operating procedures berths left for the private sector alone without any control of local bodies.
It is worth mentioning that about thirty thousand people live in Al Choranih Island governorate of Sohag suffer of the absence of a bridge linking their island isolated areas of the city of Maragheh of the rest of the cities and villages to maintain the island and affected farmers and their agricultural lands amounting to about 2000 acres of isolation since the beginning of Sunset, where the boats stop transporting people to and from the island. Which affects their lives and their health, education and lowers incomes for the rest of farmers and maintain women are subject to various risks in case of woman health problems related to childbirth during the night where forced to wait until the next morning or are moved through a small fishing boats which exposes them to death or drowning, and Many of the fires occurred within the island did not find the firefighting vehicles and means of transport for extinguishing or to intervene to prevent accidents, and the boats carrying people to and from the island much exposed to accidents leading to the sinking of dozens of Peasants in the Nile without a first aid or the presence of the police bodies of water to help them survive and not evidence of that incident, the sinking of the car from above and infectious sinking that killed 9 dead also affects the absence of a bridge also on the peasants and robbed as they are forced to transport their crops and seeds, fertilizers, noting that additional Through words which cost them a lot of money and lost opportunities for them and equal competition with farmers from neighboring villages and crops carries a lot of additional costs and negatively affect their incomes also affect the educational situation of farmers and their families, where girls and boys are forced secondary stages and universities to waste time waiting for hours infectious, It also can not delay after six o'clock and not forced to Maragheh city of residence or on the shore of the Nile Bank others.
There are some unexpected incidents occurred to some people within the island there was not enough time to address the health risks resulting from that which led to the deaths of dozens of citizens such as the incidence of heart strokes and acute excess Worminess and animal bites and poisonous stings by reptiles like snakes and scorpions.
The strange thing was that the inclusion of appropriation of 300 thousand pounds in the preservation plan in 2008 to work for repairs Anchorage phrase in the East and West to reduce the incidents of drowning and so far those repairs haven't been carried out.
The failure to establish a bridge to the Al Choranih island is contrary to law and the constitution and human rights charters by the state is committed to ensuring that these laws and protect the rights of its citizens and maintain that the establishment of a special bridge falls within the development by praising the state level every day to pay special attention.
The Center presents the complaints of Al Choranih residents of Sohag Governorate to the officials requesting them to establish a bridge for the islanders also demands the establishment of bridges on the River Nile in every island in the governorate of Sohag and the rest of the governorates of Egypt, especially if we know that the governorate of Sohag where about 200 thousand people do not have any means of protection, especially during the night and the lack of the means of security and safety that must be Guaranteed to citizens.
It also demands that all the institutions of civil society and members of the People's Council and local members of the Shura Council to pressuring the government to allocate funds to establish budgets to maintain bridges in these Islands to ensure the preservation of the people's rights to safety, security and to decent living.
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