- Nineteen prisoners use cutlery to break out of cells at Winchester prison
- France wants progress in Ukraine before Russia returns to G7
- Italy president begins talks to seek way out of government crisis
- Italian PM expected to resign as political chaos deepens
- Russia says US cruise missile test ‘regrettable’
- Kremlin - No date set for Normandy talks on Ukraine despite Macron meeting
- Egypt court hands out 6 death sentences on terror charges
- Putin says Russian nuclear explosion poses no threat
- Russian panel eyes alleged foreign interference in protests
- Gran Canaria wildfire triggers evacuation of thousands of people
- PM Johnson calls on Germany and France to compromise on Brexit
- Sudan's ex-president Bashir arrives at corruption trial
TEHRAN, July 13 - Egypt's state-run news agency said a blast at a chemical factory near Cairo's main airport injured at least a dozen people.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - MENA early Friday quoted an unnamed Interior Ministry official as saying firefighters had contained the fire caused by the blast late Thursday in a storage facility.
There were no reports of deaths. The official said the wounded were hospitalized for treatment.
Images circulated online showed huge flames and thick smoke billowing up into the sky.
Army spokesman Tamer al-Rifai said the explosion was the result of the "high temperature." Temperatures in Cairo have reached into the high 90s, low 100 degrees Fahrenheit in recent days, not unusual for Cairo in the summer.
The Civil Aviation Ministry said the explosion happened outside the airport's perimeter and air traffic was undisrupted.
Source: AP
Your Comment