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Article

13 Jan 2005

Author:
Aaron Glantz, CorpWatch

Egyptian Asbestos Workers Dying of Cancer

...90 employees...have been laid off from Aura-Misr, a Spanish-Egyptian asbestos company...Eight...have already died from lung cancer and asbestosis and almost all of the 46 others, who live at this protest camp, currently suffer from the diseases...."None of the diseases were related to asbestos," company manager Mustafa el Hefnawi told CorpWatch. [also refers to Aura-Lita, Siegwart]