Egypt: Huge Fire Reported at Security Building in Ismailia

2 October 2023

Cape Town — A huge fire erupted at a police facility in the Egyptian Suez Canal city of Ismailia early on Monday October 2, Reuters reports.

Social media videos posted on social media showed the city's security directorate engulfed in flames.

Local civil defence sources said parts of the building had collapsed under the fire. The cause for the blaze was not immediately known.

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