More than 40 people died when fire ripped through a Cairo-area Coptic Christian church during Sunday service, forcing people to jump out of windows while
More than 40 people died when fire ripped through a Cairo-area Coptic Christian church during Sunday service, forcing people to jump out of windows while
At least 41 worshipers, including a priest and at least 18 children, were killed in a fire that ripped through a crowded Coptic Orthodox church in Egypt’s capital during its Sunday service, according to reports.
Egyptians on Monday voiced outrage over reports that firefighters and paramedics took more than an hour to respond to a blaze that tore through a Coptic Christian church and killed 41 people.
Grief has spread over Sunday’s fire among Copts, the Middle East’s largest Christian community, which makes up at least 10 million of Muslim-majority Egypt’s population of 103 million.
Many other Egyptians have also voiced outrage over the disaster in the scorched Abu Sifin church, located in the greater Cairo neighborhood of Imbaba west of the Nile.
As debate flared on social media, one Twitter user wrote that the reportedly slow response
CAIRO: More than 40 people died when fire ripped through a Cairo-area Coptic Christian church during Sunday mass, forcing worshippers to jump out of windows while bystanders braved flames and smoke.