‘Barred youths’ 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. Three people were injured. An online video posted by an Egyptian newspaper shows thick black smoke and flames pouring from the doorway. Security officials have ruled out terrorism saying that the attack followed a dispute between nightclub staff who turned away a group of youths.

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