Four workers were killed and at least 22 others were injured in a fire that broke out on Monday at a key data centre in Cairo, Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, the spokesperson at Egypt’s Health Ministry, told Reuters on Tuesday.

Four people were killed and 27 others injured in a fire that broke out at a major telecommunications center in downtown Cairo, Egypt, leading to partial disruptions in the country’s communications and internet networks, local authorities said on Tuesday.

Officials in Egypt's capital say a fire has engulfed a telecom company building in downtown Cairo, injuring at least 14 people and prompting a temporary outage of internet and mobile phone services.