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In the early hours of Thursday, a car loaded with more than 400 gas cylinders exploded at the entrance to the village of Manqabad, in Assiut governorate.
Major General Essam Asaad Al-Thukair, Assiut Security Director, Deputy Minister of the Interior, received a notification from the head of the Assiut Police Station stating that a report had been received from the people of the village from Manqabad to the center’s emergency operating room. after the sound of successive explosions of unknown origin.
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A security cordon was imposed around the incident.
Police, ambulances, civil protection and firefighting forces moved to the Al-Balagh site, and a fire broke out in a car loaded with butane cylinders at the entrance to the village of Manqabad, and the pipes they exploded.
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A security cordon was imposed in the immediate vicinity of the incident, and firefighting vehicles are trying to control the situation, put out the fire, follow up on the incident and issue a report on the incident, its circumstances, and accounting for losses.
Civil Protection Forces and firefighting vehicles, in partnership with executive agencies, managed to control the fire of the car loaded with some 400 gas stove pipes belonging to one of the residents’ shops on Bani Ghaleb Road in Assiut .
Committee formation
Major General Essam Saad, Governor of Assiut, instructed to form a committee to report on the accident and take the necessary legal measures to find out the cause of the accident and its circumstances in coordination with the safety authorities to prevent the accident from reoccurring. occur. and protect the lives of citizens.
15 fire trucks
For his part, the engineer Nabil Al-Tibi, assistant secretary of Assiut, who went to the scene of the accident upon receiving notification in statements from “Vito”, stated that the fire was controlled by more than 15 firefighting vehicles, with the participation of the Assiut Directorate of Security and executive agencies.
The driver started the fire
The undersecretary pointed out that the driver of the car loaded with butane cylinders was behind the accident, as, while stopping on the road to the town of Jahdam due to a breakdown in the car, he set the car tire on fire to help him to light the way.
Fire withers from a burning tire
He added that “the sparks of fire from the burning tire ignited a fire in a pipe, including the rest of the pipes, and this caused successive explosions, which caused terror in the population of the area.”
Turn off the heat after half an hour.
Al-Tibi confirmed that the situation was brought under control only half an hour after the fire broke out, with no casualties, and that the necessary measures were taken in cooperation with all government agencies, led by Major General Essam Saad, Governor of Assiut.
He indicated that a committee is being formed, investigations with the driver are being completed and the necessary legal measures will be taken regarding the incident.
