Explosion in Cairo – level 1

14-07-2015 15:00

This news is from Cairo. Cairo is the capital city of Egypt. An explosion happens there. It happens in the morning. It happens in front of the Italian consulate.

The explosion is very big. It greatly damages the consulate. Many people hear the explosion. One person dies. It injures two people.
People want to know what happened. One man talks about it. He says that the bomb was in a car.

Difficult words: consulate (a place for a consul; a consul lives abroad; there, he helps people from his country), damage (to break), injured (to have problems with the body).

You can read the original story and watch the video in the Level 3 section.

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