27 March 2009
EGYPT: KILLER SMS SPREADS FEAR, GOVERNMENT REASSURES
(ANSAmed) - CAIRO, MARCH 25 - Egypt is in fear of a killer text message "of foreign origin" which allegedly kills anyone who reads it. The news was spread by the media and was soon known around the
country, forcing the Interior and Health ministers to act and reassure the population. According to France Presse the killer text message caused the death of a man in Mallawi, south of Cairo. The Egyptian Gazette reports that "The man died spitting blood after a cerebral attack a few minutes after having received an sms from an unknown number", specifying that the terrible number "begins with the plus symbol and ends with 111". Official agency Mena cited an "official source within the secret services" that denies press information according to which "unknown foreign parties are sending text messages to our citizens who then complain about an unbearable headache followed by cerebral haemorrhage which results in their death". The ministry of Health also issued a note quoting health services from various regions and stating that "no case with such symptoms has been reported". The ministry claims that "These rumours contradict all scientific data". The ministry of the Interior instead announced the arrest of three people employed by an oil company that allegedly spread the rumour about the killer rumours.(
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