6 members of one family pay their respects to the victims of the Imbaba church fire
On the third day, the mourning of some families of the victims of the Abu Sefein church fire in Imbaba in Giza Governorate witnessed the memorial of six members of one family, including two five-year-old twin girls.
A fire broke out in the church last Sunday "due to an electrical fault", killing 41 people as a result of suffocation.
On the third day of mourning in a church in central Cairo, Sandy George told AFP on Tuesday: "My aunt Magda, her daughters, Mirna and Irina, and Irina's three sons died of suffocation."
Irina's twins, Parthenia and Mary, and their 4-year-old brother, Abram, were among the many children who died in the fire that broke out during the morning church service, which saw families flock in.
A list of some of the victims of the fire, published by local media, gave the names of ten children under the age of sixteen among the dead, including triplets.
"The whole country is in pain for what happened," the bishop of a central Cairo church told mourners on Tuesday.
On Sunday evening, a burial ceremony for the victims of the fire was held in two churches in Cairo.
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