Within 24 hours, 3 fires broke out in separate places within the Minya governorate, without human casualties, as the civil protection forces were able to put out a huge fire in the eastern village of Saft, which broke out in an abandoned house and spread to 5 neighboring houses, and another one that ignited in a grocery store in the city of Mallawi was controlled. And a third broke out in a grill restaurant in the city of Minya, because of a lit cigarette butt, and it was put out.
A fire spread to 5 homes
The first fire, in an unknown house in the village of Safat Al-Sharqiya, affiliated to the local unit in Tallah, west of the center of Minya, where the security services received a report stating that a fire broke out in an abandoned two-storey rural house, and the flames spread to 5 other neighboring houses, which resulted in the death of 5 heads of cattle “cows and sheep.” And the destruction of an agricultural irrigation machine, and 3 tricycles without metal plates, without human injuries, and the causes of the fire were not known, and a team from the forensic laboratory moved to investigate the evidence to take the necessary action.
Extinguishing a fire in a grocery store
In the city of Mallawi, in the south of Minya Governorate, the second fire broke out inside a grocery store on Abbas Al-Akkad Street, and the Civil Protection Forces were able to extinguish it with the help of the people, before it spread to the adjacent shops. The fire broke out due to an electrical short circuit.
A fire inside a restaurant caused by a cigarette
In the city of Minya, the third fire broke out, as the end of a lit cigarette caused a fire in a grill restaurant in the Abu Hilal neighborhood in the south of the city, and resulted in the destruction of the restaurant’s external sign, as well as limited contents inside the shop, and the Civil Protection forces were able to control and extinguish it without human casualties. .
The security services issued the necessary reports of the three fires, and the Public Prosecution decided to assign the criminal laboratory to investigate the evidence for examination, inspection, and inventory of losses and damages. It also assigned the Criminal Investigation Department to investigate the circumstances and circumstances.
