Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Great fire in a building Egyptian Interior Ministry

A large fire broke out Tuesday afternoon in a complex dependence on Egyptian Interior Ministry in downtown Cairo, before which he had shown little before thousands of police. Has left at least two wounded. "The fire broke out in the ministry's Communications Center and several fire crews trying to suffocate to prevent spread to other places," said one witness.

The state news agency Mena said the fire started in the roof of the Communications Center of the Police and the flames spread across three floors within the complex of the ministry. "It's a major fire," added the witness. Several Military Police officers control access to the building and suspended vehicular traffic to facilitate the work of firefighters.

" Several ambulances went to the scene to transport the two injured, said Mena. The fire originated after hundreds of police and Ministry officials said on Tuesday to demand better wages. "Suddenly, the building has been burned," said Public Television one of the police demonstrators. "We have nothing to do with" fire, has said, explaining that he and his colleagues wanted to negotiate a wage increase with their minister.

For the moment, are unknown causes of the fire, which has not yet been extinguished. According to Mena, the military has arrested a person who was on site, without giving further details. On 23 February, a fire destroyed seven cars that were parked in front of the Agency of Criminal Evidence, which belongs to the Ministry of Interior, during a protest by laid-off one hundred policemen asked to be readmitted.

Thirteen of them were sentenced to five years in prison by a military court for "fire to a building interior ministry."

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