Dozens dead after fire rips through church in Cairo

Emergency personnel work at the site of the fire at the Abu Sefein church (Mohamed Salah/AP)

A fire has ripped through a church in a densely populated neighbourhood of Cairo, leaving at least 41 dead and injuring 14, a spokesperson for Egypt’s Coptic Church said.

The cause of the blaze in the Abu Sefein church in the working-class neighbourhood of Imbaba was not immediately known.