European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 04, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes world Friday november 4.1994 Yeltsin dumps 3rd finance 475 die when Frd Iii River of fire in Egypt Moscow a president Boris Yeltsin fired Russia s top foreign currency regulator thursday the third official to be busted and blamed for last month s Ruble crash. The Federal currency and Export control service responsible for ensuring that exporters repatriate their foreign currency earnings was among the agencies cited for errors and incompetence by a special commission investigating the Ruble  signed a decree thursday removing Viktor Kninya As the Agency s  Wasno immediate word on a successor. The inter fax news Agency quoted sources who predicted that others would also be sacked  joined former acting finance minister Sergei Dubinin and former Central Bank chair Man Viktor Gerash Chenko among the casualties of the oct. 11 Ruble crash when the russian cur Rency dropped 21 percent against the  the turmoil Yeltsin fired Dubinin and pressured Gerash Chenko to resign. Current acting finance minister Andrei Vav Lov who was first Deputy minister during the Cri Sis has also been Given a strict reprimand by the Cabinet the itar Tass news Agency reported. V. .-.-. " the government s investigative committee gave its final report to Yeltsin s Security Council on wednesday in a closed door session. The panel reportedly cited a number of top official for contributing to the crisis and called for tighter currency regulation. Following the crash Russia s Central Bank forcefully returned to the currency Market re turning the Ruble to its pre crash level. Since then the Bank has been allowing the Ruble to fall gradually it closed at 3,099 to the Dollar thursday. Durinka Egypt a a fuel train derailed on a rain loosen d track wednesday and sent winds of fire coursing through this Southern town. The blazes killed at least 475 people and left thou Sands homeless. At least 35 others died As what newspapers called the heaviest Rains in 60 years lashed normally arid Egypt. Flooding swept hundreds of Miles across the country from the Sinai Peninsula in the East to the ancient temples of Luxor in the South. In Durinka 200 Miles South of Cairo the train carrying fuel Oil derailed amid torrential Rains As it headed to a government Oil depot Early wednesday. Ignited by electric wires the burning cargo was carried on flood Waters into the town of 22,000 people. Many people died in their sleep. It was like winds of fire coming Down the Moun Tain said Mohamed Abdel Rahman who escaped with his wife and seven children before his House was destroyed. I thought it was a  Ahmed Sharaf Eddin a taxi Driver said he looked out of his Home and saw a wave of people running to the mosque screaming there is Only one god they thought it was the Day of  Mohammed Abdel Hamid Murski an official in the emergency operations room for syut province said 258 bodies were recovered by a midday thursday. Ear Lier government officials said More than 200 people were injured. The officials said about 220 Mote bodies were still believed to be buried in collapsed houses in the town. Security officials said at least 35 people were killed in flooding that collapsed houses a mosque and schools elsewhere in syut province. Deaths also were reported in neighbouring Sohag province but the number was not known ,. A   \ at Dawn thursday hundreds of residents poured into Durinka to search for missing relatives and recover whatever belongings they could find. Firefighters were still battling flames that engulfed a five Story apartment building where at least 22 people lost their lives and dousing soldering vehicles. The bodies of charred donkeys goats and dogs were scattered about the Nivins of the farming Village where Many mud Brick Homes were flattened by the torrential rain. Two tanks in the storage depot outside Durinka were St ablaze by lightning but Samih Al Saeed the governor of syut province said these strikes did not cause the fire in the town. The nine Oil tanks at the Edge of Durinka held about 100,000 barrels of fuel Oil As strategic reserves for the armed forces. Crits feast on woman s life savings in cellar Moscow a an elderly villager lost nearly All her savings about 1 million rubles or $323 when rats ate the Cash hoarded in the basement of  woman has been earning her living by Moon shining the daily Komsomol Skaya pravda re ported  studied a variety of russian state an commercial Banks the lady concluded that the safest place was her cellar it said. M the newspaper said the incident occurred in a Vil Lage near the town of Shatura 81 Miles East of mos cow but it did t identify the woman. It said doctors from the local psychiatric Hospital had to give the woman an anti Shock treatment after the loss was Dis   " a / Many russians prefer to keep their savings at their Homes since russian Banks either Are unreliable or offer interest rates too Low to match the skyrocketing  Santa s starting to Matke his annual list of Good boys and a receive children s letters and wish lists too. 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