Cairo Opera House announces three days of mourning starting Monday 6 August until Wednesday 8 August. Sixteen border guards died in an attack on the Israeli-Egyptian border in the Sinai Peninsula.
All activities are suspended, extending to all venues operating under the opera's management: all theatres and halls of the Cairo Opera House, the Alexandria Opera House (Sayed Darwish Theatre), Damanhour Opera House and El Gomhouria Theatre.
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