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Egyptian governorates log fires and a rising crash toll on Friday
September 11, 2026 at 03:34 PM
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Friday brought a predawn fire at Assiut General Hospital, a blaze at a Quesna pasta factory, and a crash toll in Ismailia that reached 20.
- Firefighters contained the predawn fire at Assiut General Hospital, moving patients and nursery infants to neighboring hospitals while crews secured the building.
- A survivor of the August El-Dawawees workers' crash in Ismailia died Friday, raising that accident's death toll to 20.
- Civil defense forces contained a fire at a pasta factory in Quesna's industrial zone; no casualties have been reported.
- The Minya prosecution detained a Moroccan woman for four days pending investigation into the fatal stabbing of her eight-year-old daughter.

















