Fire at medical storage unit in Moqattam kills one

Ahram Online , Friday 25 Apr 2014

The cause of the blaze is not yet known, but prosecutors have said there were no fire extinguishers at the site

A fire at a medical storage unit in Moqattam has left one person dead.

A 50-year-old worker died of suffocation in the blaze on Friday.

The fire has been brought under control.

Prosecutors said there were no fire extinguishers at the site, according to Al-Ahram Arabic news website.

The whole site and all of the drugs inside were destroyed.

The cause of the fire is still unknown.

Meanwhile, a fire broke out on Thursday in an agricultural area in the Siwa Oasis, near the Libyan border.

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