The Egyptian village of al-Sharif has lost at least 70 young men in the Libyan floods.
BBC News Arabic in al-Sharif, Egypt
"My three sons, all in their 20s, died," says Jumaa al-Sayyid, a 50-year-old farmer, struggling to fight back the tears. In tears, she tells the BBC that she had refused to believe the news of her sons' deaths until she saw their bodies. "I buried them side by side, like seeds in a field," she says. "I beg to God that my boys are still alive," she says. "What will happen to me if they are really gone?"Thousands of young Egyptians work in Libya, many in the construction industry
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