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The officers, citing well being ministry, say 55 others had been injured in hearth in Giza metropolis in Higher Cairo.

Egypt’s Coptic church, citing the well being ministry, has stated 41 individuals had been killed and 55 had been injured in a fireplace at a church within the metropolis of Giza, close to Cairo.

Egypt’s well being ministry had earlier stated “a number of” individuals have been killed on Sunday on the Abu Sifin coptic church within the Imbaba neighborhood.

Two safety sources instructed Reuters information company {an electrical} hearth broke out as 5,000 worshippers gathered for mass, inflicting a stampede.

Fifteen firefighting automobiles had been dispatched to the scene to place out the flames whereas ambulances ferried the casualties to close by hospitals.

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi spoke by cellphone with the Coptic Christian Pope Tawadros II to supply his condolences, the president’s workplace stated.

“I’ve mobilised all state providers to make sure that all measures are taken,” he stated on his Fb web page.

Fireplace providers later stated the blaze had been introduced below management.

Copts are the biggest Christian neighborhood within the Center East, making up a minimum of 10 million of Egypt’s 103 million individuals.

Egypt has suffered a number of lethal fires in recent times.

In March 2021, a minimum of 20 individuals died in a blaze in a textile manufacturing unit within the japanese suburbs of Cairo.

In 2020, two hospital fires claimed the lives of 14 COVID-19 sufferers.

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