On Wednesday, three people were killed and 32 others injured in a fire that broke out in a hospital in north Cairo, the Egyptian health ministry said.
“The fire started at the radiology ward in a charity-run hospital in the district of Matariya,” ministry spokesman Hossam Abdelghaffar was quoted as saying by official media.
He did not elaborate on the cause of the fire, which was later brought under control.
The megalopolis of Cairo is home to some 20 million people, many of them living in informal residential areas with dilapidated infrastructure.
Deadly blazes, often caused by short circuits, are relatively common in the city and elsewhere in Egypt, a country of 104 million inhabitants.
A fire that tore through a Coptic Christian church in the greater Cairo neighborhood of Imbaba last year killed 41 people, in one of the deadliest incidents in years.
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