ALBAWABA - A horrific video showed the moment a person jumped from the sixth floor in Egypt's Ismailia due to a massive fire that engulfed a police station.
Many heartbreaking videos and photos circulated online of a massive fire eating the police station building in Ismailia in the early Monday morning. However, a video showing a man jumping from the sixth floor has taken the internet by storm.
People have sympathized with the footage showing a person putting his life in danger to escape the massive fire in Ismailia. A clip documented the moment was shared on social media with people praying for the man to be alive.
At least 26 people were injured in the huge fire that engulfed the police station in Ismailia city in north-eastern Cairo, the Egyptian health ministry reported on Monday.
Local media cited health ministry workers saying of 26 injured in the fire and who were transferred to a local hospital, 24 had suffered from "asphyxiation" and two from burns.
Firefighters try to extinguish a fire at a police station in Ismailia. (AFP)
Egyptian local media revealed that firefighters and rescue workers rushed to the scene and contained the fire after hours.
An investigation was launched to determine the cause of the fire in the Ismailia police station, however, some experts suggested that the fire rapidly spread in the building due to strong winds considering that the building is located in an open space where no buildings are around.
