CAIRO, Dec. 5 (Aswat Masriya) - A third suspect accused of involvement in the deadly attack on a Giza nightclub overlooking the Nile was arrested, the interior ministry told state news agency MENA.

He was arrested from his home in the Giza neighbourhood of Imbaba and police are searching for fourth and final suspect, MENA reported. 

This comes after the interior ministry announced that it arrested two suspects who fled to the province of Suez to the east of Cairo. They were identified as an 18-year-old student and a 19-year-old mechanic, both of whom are residents of Imbaba. 

According to the interior ministry, they both confessed to carrying out the attack on the nightclub in Giza's Agouza neighbourhood in the early hours of Friday leaving 16 dead, using two Molotov cocktails and gunfire.

The fire and smoke created by the Molotov cocktails caused many victims to suffocate. 

The two suspects added that two others helped them carry out the attack and that their motive was "revenge" for being barred from entering the nightclub, the ministry said. 

In an earlier statement, the ministry had said preliminary findings indicated that the attack followed a fight between the employees at the club and "others", according to the MOI statement. 

But the manager of the business said there was "no dispute". "They do not know us and we do not know them," he said in a state news agency MENA video, filmed outside the burnt down facility. 

"This is their criminal activity. They live off thuggery," he said.