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General Category => World News => Topic started by: famousdayandyear on August 16, 2013, 10:46:19 pm
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Report: Pro Morsi Supporters Burn Red Crescent Charity Building In Cairo, Workers Trapped, Jumping Out Of Windows
Red Crescent is the functional equivalent of the Red Cross in the Muslim World.
Building fire in Cairo spreading to blood bank at Red Crescent charity http://t.co/Fx2PvQzua9 & pic.twitter.com/kZZnMpgf8x
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) August 16, 2013
Reports that workers are trapped in the building and some jumping out the windows:
Many employees and workers are stuck inside the burning blood bank building in #Ramsis sq. and some of them jumped out of windows #Egypt
— Ahmad Talaat (@Ahmadtal3t) August 16, 2013
Muslim Brotherhood shot at firefighters and torched a fire truck trying to come to the rescue:
“@nabilelhalfawy pic.twitter.com/mcfwgW7cwH” MB torch fire truck to prevent from arriving at red crescent building which they burned @hrw @CNN
— nagwa assran (@nagwacnbc) August 16, 2013
The building on fire in Ramses sq holds the Red Crescent siege & blood bank. Personnel trapped inside. MB shoot firemen vehicles & burned 1
— Nihad (@NihadAllam) August 16, 2013
The Arabs contractors bldg burning. Two floors are for Red Crescent. Ppl trapped inside. #MB blocking roads infrnt of fire trucks #Egypt
— Mai A. Kader (@Mai_AbdelKader) August 16, 2013
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