CAIRO, Egypt – A fireplace that broke out Wednesday in a hospital in north Cairo killed three folks and injured 32 others, the Egyptian well being ministry mentioned.
“The fire started at the radiology ward in a charity-run hospital in the district of Matariya,” ministry spokesman Hossam Abdelghaffar was quoted as saying by official media.
He didn’t elaborate on the reason for the hearth, which was later introduced underneath management.
The megalopolis of Cairo is residence to some 20 million folks, lots of them residing in casual residential areas with dilapidated infrastructure.
Deadly blazes, typically brought on by quick circuits, are comparatively widespread within the metropolis and elsewhere in Egypt, a rustic of 104 million inhabitants.
A fireplace that tore via a Coptic Christian church within the larger Cairo neighborhood of Imbaba final yr killed 41 folks, in one of many deadliest incidents in years.
The August 14 blaze erupted when an air conditioner caught hearth, engulfing the church in smoke. Dozens of worshippers suffocated on a staircase earlier than rescue companies arrived. — Agence France-Presse
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