Cairo: Four children lost their lives in a terrible fire in a flat in the famous Egyptian city of Giza, a wave of grief and sorrow spread throughout the region after the horrific incident.
The oldest of the dead was an 8-year-old boy, according to the Egyptian magazine Al-Watan. – The youngest of them was 2 years old.
Egyptian media released details saying that the neighbors of the affected flat were shocked to see the flames and immediately informed the police.
A woman was living in the flat with her 4 children. Smoke was coming out of the flat. They broke down the door and tried to put out the fire. Her four children are in the flat.
Neighbors searched for her and pulled her out of the flat. Neighbors found the youngest child dead, while the other girls were taken by car to the nearest hospital, but they too died of smoke by the time they got there. Û”
Eyewitnesses said that due to heavy smoke they could not enter the flat at first, first they cut the electrical connection of the whole building and then they dared to enter the flat to put out the fire.
A neighbor also pulled the infant’s body out of the flat and burned it. Ambulances and security forces later arrived to help.
An eyewitness pointed out that the fire had destroyed the entire flat. And has been living in the affected flat for the last 10 months.