At the very least two officers and three civil safety service members had been injured responding to the hearth at Abu Sefein church, Egypt’s inside ministry introduced in a Fb submit.

The assertion added that the hearth began round 9 a.m. native time and was brought on by {an electrical} failure in an air con unit on the church’s second flooring.

Many of the deaths and accidents had been brought on by smoke inside church lecture rooms after the electrical failure, the inside ministry stated.  

“We’re in steady contact with the native authorities and the Well being Ministry,” the head of the Coptic Church, Pope Tawadros II stated, in line with the church spokesperson.