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
CAIRO: On Sunday, thick smoke and the sound of screams engulfed the Imbaba neighborhood of Cairo as fire broke out in the Abu Sifin church in the working-class district west of the Nile River. Many of the 5,000 worshippers who had gathered for a peaceful mass at the Coptic church were forced to throw themselves from windows on to the street below. By the time emergency
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.