CAIRO: Three students were crushed to death and another seven injured on Saturday as they attempted to escape a lecture theater after news spread of a fire at their Nile delta university, a security source said.
As news of the small fire at a girl s college in the delta city of Zagazig broke, panicked students scrambled to get out of the building, the source told AFP.
Three students were killed and another seven were taken to hospital in critical condition, the source said.
Yehya Abdel Hamid, governor of Al-Sharqiyah province where Zagazig is located, told state television that another 230 students taken to hospital for check-ups were later discharged.
The students belong to a college in Zagazig affiliated to Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Sunni Islam s main seat of learning. -AFP
