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31 Jul 2015

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Peninsula (Qatar)

At least 25 killed in Egypt furniture factory blaze

"At least 25 killed in Egypt furniture factory blaze", 29 July 2015 

At least 25 people died in a fire that gutted an Egyptian furniture factory north of Cairo yesterday, a Health Ministry official said. Twenty-two more workers suffered from burns and smoke inhalation in the blaze in the Al-Helw factory on the outskirts of the capital, Health Ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar said. Security officials said the fire raged through the three-storey factory and its warehouse after a gas cylinder exploded...