A fire erupted at a navy floating dock in a Suez port on Tuesday, during maintenance work.
Many ambulances and fire engines hurried to the scene after the operations room at Red Sea Ports Authority received a report from the Suez port that a fire had broken out.
Major Mohamed Abdel-Kader Gab Allah, head of the Red Sea Ports Authority, said that "the fire is being controlled by the locomotive authority, which is putting out the fire along with fire fighting engines".
This is not the first fire that has broken out in Suez this month.
On Sunday some 3,000 employees of the state-owned Nasr Oil Company (NOC) located in the Egyptian canal city of Suez returned to their jobs following a six-day work stoppage, due to a factory fire.
The fire, which erupted on 14 April in one of the company's oil tanks, killed one worker and one fire fighter and injured several others. The exact cause of the blaze remains unknown.
In addition, a massive fire broke out in the crowded commercial area El-Khan, in the city of Tanta on Sunday. The fire ruined thirteen stores and completely destroyed the five-storey state-owned Bayae El-Masnouat department store.
The fire department managed to contain the fire, but the source has not yet been determined.
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