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Poor Egyptian villagers crowd a subsidized bread distribution center in Mahalet Damana, a delta village 135 kilometers north of the capital, Cairo. Local officials moved the line to this location after Amal al Dusouqi, 43, was trampled to death April 9, 2008 in a more confined distribution point. Rising food prices have become a increasing crisis for Egypt's poor over the past several months.

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Poor Egyptian villagers crowd a subsidized bread distribution center in Mahalet Damana, a delta village 135 kilometers north of the capital, Cairo. Local officials moved the line to this location after Amal al Dusouqi, 43, was trampled to death April 9, 2008 in a more confined distribution point. Rising food prices have become a increasing crisis for Egypt's poor over the past several months.