Local media outlets reported that the attack happened at a nightclub in Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, where attackers reportedly threw Molotov cocktails and then fled away on motorcycles as a blaze grew, according to Daily News Egypt.
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Government-run Al-Ahram reported that Egyptian prosecutors and police are investigating the incident.
Masked men attacked a fish restaurant in Cairo early on Friday killing at least 16 people and wounding 5 others, reports say.
Egypt has been hit by a wave of terror attacks, focused primarily in the Sinai Peninsula, by Islamic extremist groups including the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Egypt has been battling a growing Islamic insurgency, and a branch of Islamic State has claimed many large-scale attacks across the country.
He said initially he thought it was a terrorist attack but then he recalled having seen some of the men outside the restaurant the night before when they were turned away.
Accounts say the bomb caused a huge fire and most of the victims are staff of the restaurant.
No one who was inside the club survived, Abdel-Karim said. Among the dead are five women and 11 men.
Three people were reportedly wounded, raising speculation they might have been passers-by or just outside the club.
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“That was only one door, and the door is narrow and unfortunately also the place is one metre underground”, he added. Flames have been burning the inside the building & charring the facade of the restaurant, located on the bottom floor of an apartment building.
