An entire family of four, including two children, was killed in a fire inside a residential apartment in Manial neighborhood of Old Cairo.
Investigations revealed that the mother was hugging her daughter in the apartment’s balcony during the fire, and they were charred together as the fire devoured the apartment in mere minutes.
Civil Defense Forces in Cairo dispatched five fire engines to control and extinguish the fire.
The security services at the Cairo Security Directorate received a notification from the emergency operations room, which included a report of a fire breaking out in a residential apartment on the fifth floor of a building on Manial Street.
The bodies were transferred to the morgue at the disposal of the Public Prosecution Office in Cairo.
