CAIRO — Egyptian officers mentioned Tuesday a fire that engulfed a main telecom company building in downtown Cairo the day earlier than left 4 individuals useless and over two dozen injured.
The 4 have been Telecom Egypt workers who had been contained in the constructing, the employees’ union of the corporate mentioned in an announcement.
Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, the well being ministry spokesperson, informed The Related Press over the telephone the variety of the injured elevated from 14 to 26, together with those that suffered from smoke suffocation. All have been hospitalized and a few have been discharged, he mentioned.
The hearth started in one of many halls on the ground housing telecom operators and unfold to different flooring attributable to its depth, in response to the Communications Ministry.
The blaze, which broke out on the landmark 10-story Telecom Egypt constructing, prompted a short lived outage of web and cell phone companies. NetBlocks, a world web monitor, wrote Monday on X that community information present nationwide connectivity was at 62% of strange ranges.
The outage additionally disrupted air site visitors, however the civil aviation ministry mentioned early Tuesday all halted flights have taken off.
The Egyptian Inventory Trade halted buying and selling on Tuesday attributable to widespread disruption impacting the effectivity of the buying and selling system.
Amr Talaat, minister of communications and knowledge expertise, mentioned in an announcement Tuesday morning that each one communications companies will steadily be totally restored inside 24 hours. He mentioned that each one companies have been transferred to multiple switchboard to function in its place community