CAIRO: According to church officials, a fire that engulfed a Coptic Christian church in a working-class area of greater Cairo during Sunday service resulted in the deaths of over 40 persons.
The Abu Sifin church, which is a part of Giza governorate’s heavily populated Imbaba neighbourhood west of the Nile river, was damaged by the fire, which authorities attribute to an electrical problem.
According to eyewitnesses, individuals tried to rush into the burning place of worship to save others who were trapped inside but were quickly overcome either by heat and the poisonous smoke.
However, the fire kept growing and you were only enter once before you died from suffocation.Before emergency services declared the fire under control, the Egyptian Coptic Church and also the health ministry said the fire had claimed 41 lives and injured 14.
On his Facebook page in the morning, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi wrote: “I had mobilised all state services to ensure that all steps are implemented.”
In a later statement, he claimed that he had “offered his regrets by phone” to Coptic Pope Tawadros II, who has led the faith in Egypt since 2012.
