The Egyptian Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday that Monday A fire at the head of Telecom Egypt in Cairo claimed at least four dead and 27 injured. The fire also caused extensive outages of Internet and telecommunications services. According to the AFP report, TASR reports this.
Internet and telephone connections were significantly disturbed in the Egyptian capital on Tuesday, and the Egyptian Stock Exchange was also interrupted.
“Civil protection members have found four dead bodies at the incident,” stated the Ministry of Health in a statement. Egyptian authorities have not yet published information on the cause of the fire or the injured.
Reuters, referring to the Egyptian Mena agency, reported that according to preliminary investigation The fire was probably due to the short circuit in the power line.
A fire that broke out on Monday on the seventh floor of the ten -storey telecom Egypt in the city center, He also influenced flight traffic at Cairo Airport. The Ministry of Civil Aviation informed on Tuesday morning that after the delay caused by the aforementioned fire, all flights at Cairo’s airport were restored.
Cairo Governor Ibráhim Sábir Chalíl also reported on Monday about the outages of gas and electricity supplies in the city. Local media reported that firefighters extinguished the fire on Monday night, writes AFP.
