Priest, triplets and their family among 41 mourned after Cairo Coptic church fire

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Hundreds gather at two churches in Cairo to pay their respects to the victims of a deadly fire, with up to 15 children being killed in the blaze at the Abu Sefein church.

"As soon as I got away from the church by only 10 metres, I heard the sound of screaming and saw thick smoke," he said.

"We went upstairs and found people dead. And we started to see from outside that the smoke was getting bigger, and people want to jump from the upper floor," he said. Father Farid Fahmy, of another nearby church, told the AFP news wire a short circuit caused the fire."When the power came back, it caused an overload."

 

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