A Not Well Chicken
Six
people drowned Monday while trying to rescue a chicken that had fallen into a
well in southern Egypt. An 18 year old farmer was the first to descend into the
60-foot well. He drowned, apparently after an undercurrent in the water pulled
him down, police said his sister and two brothers, none of whom could swim well,
went in one by one to help him, but also drowned.
Two
elderly farmers then came to help. But they apparently were pulled by the same
undercurrent. The bodies of the six were later pulled out of the well in the
village of Nazlat Imara, 240 miles south of Cairo. The chicken was also pulled
out. It survived