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Major General Mohamed El-Sherbiny, director of the General Administration of Civil Protection at Cairo security department, succumbed to injuries sustained while leading firefighters responding to the blaze.
The New Valley Governorate is facing one of the biggest environmental challenges in Egypt: the accumulation of palm waste.
Eleven injured people were treated at the scene and then returned to their homes. Only one injured person was transferred to Mansoura International Hospital for treatment. No deaths have been reported so far.
Cairo Governor Ibrahim Saber said the blaze started in one residential building before spreading to three neighboring properties.
Governor of Giza Adel El-Naggar visited the “Munib Superman” in hospital Sunday to express his respect to his rescuing of a child two weeks ago.
The government and people of Egypt extended their sincere condolences to the government and people of Iraq and to the families of the victims following this painful tragedy, said the Egyptian Foreign Ministry in a statement on Thursday.
Most of the victims suffocated to death in bathrooms as a result of the heavy smoke. Among them also, there were 14 unidentified charred bodies, the statement added.
Telecom Egypt said electricity was cut off from the entire building of Ramses Central (switchboard) during the firefighting operation to ensure the safety of workers and prevent the blaze from spreading on Monday.
The aircraft, an Embraer 190, was en route from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to Grozny, Russia, when it made an emergency landing roughly three kilometers from Aktau
Cairo civil protection authorities dispatched multiple fire trucks to the scene to control the fire and prevent its extension to neighboring areas
Civil protection units successfully brought the fire under control, with no reported casualties
The Prime Minister also instructed authorities to issue national IDs for those who lost theirs during the incident.
The fire broke out inside a filming building after ending the last episode of “Al Maalem,” one of Ramadan T.V. series. Al-Ahram Studio was established in 1944 by two Greek nationals on an area of 27,000 quare meters. It includes a group of plazas, a showroom and a recording hall and a film development laboratory. It has been a place for filming many dramatic and cinematic works that remained etched on Egyptian’s minds, as nearly 500 dramatic and cinematic works were filmed.
The fire has been contained by both the Civil Protection Forces and the Egyptian Armed Forces.
A fire that broke out on Saturday in the Cairo headquarters of the Ministry of Religious Endowments (Awqaf Ministry) was caused by an electrical short circuit, the Ministry of Interior said in a statement.
Villagers in Laerma received the 112 evacuation text message at around 10.30 p.m.
A total of 15 British tourists, 10 crew members and 2 tourist guides were on board the boat when it caught fire on Sunday, a statement by the Red Sea governorate read.
Nine people were killed and four were injured as a microbus crashed and caught fire on the Middle Ring Road in 6th of October City in northern Egypt’s Giza governorate late on Wednesday.
23 people were injured as a fire broke out in the government services building in Cairo’s 15th of May city on Monday.
The chancellor of the exchequer was dismissed in person by Truss after he rushed back early from international meetings in Washington, multiple media reports said, and she was due later to hold her first Downing Street news conference.
