Egypt: Floods - Jan 2010
Disaster description
Starting on 18 January 2010, torrential rains hit several communities from the Sinai Peninsula and Aswan in Egypt. The rain-induced flooding claimed 12 lives and left hundreds displaced in the Sinai Peninsula, the Red Sea port of Hurghada and the Aswan Governorate in southern Egypt. (IFRC, 21 Jan 2010)
