Huge sandstorm sweeps across Suez Canal in Egypt

A video posted online shows a sandstorm surrounding the Suez Canal, which led to authorities closing 2 ports.

Parts of Egypt person been deed by clouds of particulate and sand.

One idiosyncratic died and 5 others were injured connected Thursday, erstwhile a billboard collapsed arsenic a effect of the sandstorm sweeping done Egypt's superior metropolis Cairo.

The Suez Canal is 1 of the busiest waterways successful the world.