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Egyptian Minister of Civil Aviation, Younis El Masri, confirmed that the huge explosion that rocked Thursday night near the Cairo airport occurred in tanks fuel on the outside of its walls.
In a press release, al-Masri denied news that air traffic was temporarily suspended at the airport, saying that there was no stopping flights and that air traffic at the airport was proceeding normally.
Said pointed out that the explosion inside the Cairo airport walls caused a fire in two petroleum product tanks owned by a petrochemical company on the way to the airport. international airport.
While armed forces spokesman Colonel Tamer Rifai said that the explosion outside the Cairo airport was due to the high temperature of the air in a warehouse of the Heliopolis Company for Chemical Industries
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Meanwhile, the Egyptian undersecretary of the Cairo Ministry of Health, Mohamed Shawki, said in an interview with "Masrawi" that up to now 3 people have been transferred to the hospital of Salam by Ismailia
. A loud speaker heard in the capital shook the evening of a neighborhood near the airport
Source: Egyptian Media + Twitter + Reuters
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