‘Sacked employee’ behind restaurant petrol bombing which leaves 16 dead

A petrol bomb attack has killed at least 16 people, including five women, in a restaurant in Cairo. The Molotov cocktail was said to have been thrown into the doorway of the El Sayad restaurant in the centre of the Egyptian capital by men on motorcycles who then fled the scene. Victims were burned to death or died from smoke inhalation as the restaurant, also a nightclub, was in a basement with no escape route. Six people were injured. An online video posted by an Egyptian newspaper shows thick black smoke and flames pouring from the doorway. The attack was carried out by an employee who had been fired from the restaurant, one security official said. Another theory is that it followed a dispute between employees of the nightclub and a group of youths.

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