Egypt's health minister blamed the smoke and a stampede as people attempted to flee the fire for causing the fatalities.
capital on Sunday, quickly filling it with thick black smoke and killing 41 worshippers, including at least 15 children.
The country’s health minister blamed the smoke and a stampede as people attempted to flee the fire for causing the fatalities. It was one of the worst fire tragedies in Egypt in recent years. Twenty-one bodies were taken to other hospitals. It was not immediately known if children were among them. Witness Emad Hanna said the church includes two places used as a daycare for children, and that a church worker managed to get some children out.
Health Minister Khaled Abdel-Ghafar countered that the first ambulance arrived at the site two minutes after the fire was reported. Civil protection personnel work at the scene after a fire tore through a Coptic Christian church on August 14, 2022 in the Imbaba neighborhood of Giza, Egypt.
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