Unidentified assailants set fire to Cairo's Al-Jazeera office in Tahrir Square on Wednesday, reported Al-Jazeera.
Eyewitnesses have confirmed that the studio, on the first floor of the Cairo building, was set ablaze, reported the Middle East News Agency.
Firemen were able to contain the fire with no lives lost.
Egypt had shut down the service at an earlier occasion for "airing without license".
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