At least 20 killed in Cairo multi-vehicle crash, explosion

Cairo: At least 20 people were killed in Egyptian captial of Cairo after a car drove at high speed in the wrong direction, crashing into three others outside a cancer hospital in central Cairo, causing an explosion.

Another 47 people were injured, at least three of them critically, a health ministry spokesperson added.

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said that the incident was 'terrorist-related'.

He also sent condolences to families of those killed in the "cowardly terrorist incident".

"I extend my deepest condolences to the Egyptian people and the families of the martyrs killed in the cowardly terrorist incident in the vicinity of the Kasr al-Aini area yesterday evening," he wrote in a tribute to the victims on his official social media accounts.

Khaled Megahed, spokesperson for the health ministry, said the wounded were suffering from "several burns of varying degrees".

Some 78 cancer patients who were being treated inside the hospital have now been transferred to other facilities, he added.