Several killed in Egypt chemical plant blast: medics, security sources

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Family-members and relatives of the victims of an explosion at a chemical plant gather outside a morgue to receive their bodies, in the Egyptian Red Sea port city of Suez on March 21, 2019. (AFP)
  • No official toll from the incident in Ain Sokhna has been confirmed

CAIRO: Several people were killed Thursday when a gas tank exploded at an Egyptian fertilizer factory on the Red Sea coast, according to medical and security sources.
No official toll from the incident in Ain Sokhna has been confirmed, but medics told AFP 10 bodies had been received at a nearby morgue following an incident.

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