A fire broke out in the Church of “Mariam the Egyptian” in the Al-Amarwa area in Alexandria Governorate in Egypt, which caused the injury of a person, and the civil protection forces managed to control the fire, according to Egyptian media.
Firefighting vehicles and ambulances were dispatched to the site of the accident, and the Egyptian civil protection forces were able to control the fire, according to the website.Egyptian today“.
The injured was taken to the hospital for treatment, and initial investigations suggested that a “electrical short circuit in the connection to the central air conditioning unit in the church” caused the fire, according to the website.Cairo 24“.
Activists circulated on the social networking sites “Facebook and Twitter”, a video clip that monitors the moment the fire broke out, during a mass inside the church.
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panic and panic | The beginning of the fire of the Egyptian Church of Saint Mary in Al-Amarwa area in Alexandria ⬇️⤵️
Lord, peace ???????????? They keep saying that someone is the one who did this this time ⤵️⬇️☹️ pic.twitter.com/gDNsF91xYo— Marian Morgan (@Marian_Morgan82) August 22, 2022
The incident came a few hours after a similar fire in the “Derakah Monastery” in Assiut Governorate, Upper Egypt, on Sunday evening, during the last night of the Coptic Orthodox celebrations of the birth of the Virgin.
Assiut Governorate’s statement stated that a “limited fire” broke out with “some paper waste” and was brought under control, noting that the fire “did not affect” the conduct of the religious celebration in which thousands were participating, according to the website.Masrawy“.
Paying a number of ambulances to save fainting cases during the control of the fire of the Church of the Cross in Jabal Drunka pic.twitter.com/axX7qB5WsG
– Al-Masry Al-Youm (@AlMasryAlYoum) August 21, 2022
Fires caused by an “electrical fault” are not rare in Egypt, which has a population of 103 million, where the infrastructure of most public buildings is dilapidated, according to “AFP”.