{"id":36324,"date":"2025-07-08T13:46:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/08\/blaze-at-cairo-telecommunications-building-kills-4-disrupts-internet-phone\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T13:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:46:28","slug":"blaze-at-cairo-telecommunications-building-kills-4-disrupts-internet-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/08\/blaze-at-cairo-telecommunications-building-kills-4-disrupts-internet-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Blaze at Cairo telecommunications building kills 4, disrupts internet, phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Four workers were killed and at least 22 others were injured in a fire that broke out on Monday at a key data centre in Cairo, Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, the spokesperson at Egypt\u2019s Health Ministry, told Reuters on Tuesday.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The blaze at a Telecom Egypt ETEL.CA facility, which state TV said was contained on Monday, caused disruptions to communications across the capital.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Egypt\u2019s Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Amr Talaat, said in a statement on Tuesday that services will be gradually restored within 24 hours.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            In a statement on Tuesday, Telecom Egypt said it mourned the employees that lost their lives and offered support for their families.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The fire halted phone calls, and disrupted internet access, with internet monitoring group Netblocks saying network data showed national connectivity at 62% of ordinary levels.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The health ministry posted alternative numbers for ambulance services across different governorates in case people were unable to reach its main hotline.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Besides phone calls, some digital banking services were also impacted including credit cards, ATM machines and online transactions, a bank source and residents said on Monday. Banks had already been closed for the day.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The injuries were mostly because of smoke inhalation, health ministry spokesperson Ghaffar said on Monday.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The state news agency MENA said on Monday the fire had been prevented from spreading to the entire building and neighbouring rooftops.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            An initial examination indicated that the fire was likely to have been caused by an electrical short circuit, MENA cited a security source as saying.    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four workers were killed and at least 22 others were injured in a fire that broke out on Monday at a key data centre in Cairo, Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, the spokesperson at Egypt\u2019s Health Ministry, told Reuters on Tuesday. 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