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Mass funeral in Egypt for 41 victims of Cairo Coptic church fire sparked by electrical failure | South China Morning Post

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Relatives attended a mass funeral in Giza, Egypt on August 14, 2022, for some of the 41 victims killed in an electrical fire and stampede at the Abu Sifin Coptic Christian church earlier the same day. Electrical fires are not rare in Egypt. In late 2020, a fire at a hospital treating Covid-19 patients killed at leas…

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