CAIRO, Nov 10 — Twenty years after burying him, Egyptian architect Ahmed el-Meligui was forced to exhume his grandfather’s remains from a historic Cairo cemetery that is being...
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“Death itself is a tragedy. Here, you are reliving that tragedy all over again,” said the 43-year-old, who had 23 relatives in total removed from their family tomb, located in a sprawling cemetery known as the City of the Dead in Old Cairo. The tomb of the el-Meligui family stands prior to its demolition in a historic Cairo cemetery that will be partially razed to accommodate the growing mega-city, on November 6, 2024. — AFP pic
Speaking from his luxury home in west Cairo, Meligui said he had the remains transported in a hearse to be reinterred at a new cemetery in Fayoum province, around 100 kilometres away.The Egyptian government has offered alternative burial sites outside Cairo to families, but these cemeteries are smaller and more remote, according to several people whose families have tombs there.
“Imagine digging up your family’s graves with your own hands and gathering their bones into bags,” he said.
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