Cairo: It was reported that more than 40 people were killed when a fire ripped through a Coptic Christian church in Cairo during Sunday mass. The blaze, blamed on an electrical fault, hit the Abu Sifin church located in the densely populated Imbaba neighborhood west of the Nile river. The Egyptian Coptic Church and the health ministry reported 41 dead and 14 injured in the blaze before emergency services said they had brought the blaze under control.
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