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[AP, Cairo, Egypt, 31 Aug 1995]
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Six people drowned Monday while trying to
rescue a chicken that had fallen into a well in southern Egypt.
An 18-year-old farmer was the first to descend into the 60-foot
well. He drowned, apparently
after an undercurrent in the water pulled him down, police said.
His sister and two brothers, none of whom could swim well, went
in one by one to help him, but also drowned. Two elderly farmers
then came to help, but they apparently were pulled down by the
same undercurrent. The bodies of the six were later pulled out of
the well in the village of Nazlat Imara, 240 miles south of
Cairo. The chicken was also pulled out. It survived.
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