In the capital of Egypt, dozens of adolescents suffered as a result of a fire in the children’s detention center, six of them died. This is reported by BBC News.
According to the investigation of local security services, the ignition occurred due to short circuit. Before this, a fight occurred between two prisoners. It is noted that only one wing of the building caught fire. The scene quickly sent firefighters and ambulances. Emergency services quickly stopped the fire, he did not spread to the rest of the SIZO.
According to the local Masrawy news portal, most children got lightweight injured as a result of suffocation and physical injuries, when they tried to escape from fire, but six teenagers burned alive. The boss of the SIZO is detained before finding out the circumstances of what happened.
In January, it became known that ten newborn babies died in a fire in the hospital in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Seven newborns managed to save. It is noted that the cause of an accident in the city of Bhandar is most likely a short circuit.