CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt used air force helicopters on Saturday to fight a fire which swept through palm plantations in the southwest of the country, threatening residential areas, state news agency MENA reported.
The agency said that 30 people were hurt, mostly due to smoke inhalation, from the fire which broke out on Friday near the New Valley provincial village of el-Rashda.
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