According to Egyptian Public Prosecutor Hamada El-statement Sawy’s made today, Sunday, witnesses at the site of the fire at the Munira Church in Imbaba, Giza Governorate, which killed hundreds, revealed that the cause of the fire was a short circuit in a device used to produce power.
The Public Prosecution has finished a study of all the remains from the fire at the Abu Sefein Church in Imbaba, according to the statement, and there were no obvious injuries indicating of anything other than suffocation.
He also reported 41 deaths and 16 injuries, including two officers and two police officers, and directed to the interrogation of 14 of the injured, whose circumstances permitted it.
According to the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt, the fire started inside a church in a highly populated area, killing at least 41 persons, including 10 children, and injured 14.
Many of the beleaguered parishioners, according to eyewitnesses, leaped from the top levels of Abu Sefein Church in an attempt to escape the roaring flames.
They further reported that when the fire broke out, there were a large number of youngsters inside the four-story structure.
According to the Egyptian Minister of Health, the deaths were caused by smoke and a rush as people rushed to leave the fire.
According to officials, 15 fire engines were dispatched to the area to extinguish the flames, while ambulances transported the injured to nearby hospitals.
President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, according to the presidential administration, contacted Pope Tawadros II, the head of Egypt’s Orthodox Church, to offer his condolences.
I am closely monitoring the unfolding of the sad catastrophe at Al-Munira Church in Giza Governorate, and I have directed all relevant state agencies and organisations to take appropriate action to deal with this situation and its consequences. Al-Sisi made the announcement on Facebook.
The Ministry of Interior, for its part, stated that the incident was reported to them around nine a.m. local time and that it began in an air conditioner on the second floor of the building.
According to the ministry, the fire, which created large volumes of smoke, was started by a short circuit.
The Egyptian Prosecution: Suffocation is the sole cause of death confirmed by the corpses of the church victims.
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