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.

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.

CAIRO -- Egyptian officials said Tuesday a fire that engulfed a main telecom company building in downtown Cairo the day before left four people dead and over two dozen injured.