Terrifying: A towering inferno has
ripped through a residential skyscraper in the United Arab Emirates -
the third such incident in a year
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Hundreds of people were forced to flee when a towering inferno ripped through a residential skyscraper in the UAE
Huge blaze, which broke out in the emirate of Ajman late on Monday, is the third such incident in a little over a year
Images shared on social media showed bright yellow flames spreading up the side of building in city north of Dubai
Huge blaze, which broke out in the emirate of Ajman late on Monday, is the third such incident in a little over a year
Images shared on social media showed bright yellow flames spreading up the side of building in city north of Dubai
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But reports in the UAE say there were no casualties and that everyone was evacuated from the tower in al-Sawan
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Hundreds of people were forced to flee as chunks of burning metal fell to the ground when a blaze broke out in the emirate of Ajman
A
towering inferno has ripped through a residential skyscraper in the
United Arab Emirates - the third such incident in just over a year.
Hundreds
of people were forced to flee as chunks of burning metal fell to the
ground when a blaze broke out in the emirate of Ajman late on Monday.
Images
shared on social media showed bright yellow flames spreading up the
side of the building but reports in the UAE say there were no
casualties, and that everyone was evacuated from the tower in al-Sawan.
Photo: Google
Before the fire: The Emirati interior minister, Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, rushed to Ajman to help coordinate the response to the blaze at the Ajman One complex, Ajman police said
Before the fire: The Emirati interior minister, Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, rushed to Ajman to help coordinate the response to the blaze at the Ajman One complex, Ajman police said
Lucky
escape: Images shared on social media showed bright yellow flames
spreading up the side of the building but reports in the UAE say there
were no casualties, and that everyone was evacuated from the tower in
al-Sawan
Fire struck in the Ajman One complex, a
development of 12 towers with some 3,000 apartments, and officers
sealed off a major road nearby
The
Emirati interior minister, Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, rushed to
Ajman to help coordinate the response to the blaze, Ajman police said.
Fire
struck in the Ajman One complex, a development of 12 towers with some
3,000 apartments, and officers sealed off a major road near the tower.
Hundreds
of evacuated residents and onlookers crowded nearby to watch the
building go up in flames, while efforts to extinguish the blaze
continued late into the night.
Ajman
is home to many commuters who work in the Gulf commercial hub of Dubai,
further to the south. Like Dubai, it is one of the seven emirates that
make up the UAE federation.
The
blaze comes less than three months after a massive fire raced up the
exterior of the 63-story The Address Downtown Dubai, one of Dubai's most
prominent hotels. It is situated next to Dubai's biggest mall and the
Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest skyscraper.
Similar
fires have struck other high-rises built since the turn of this century
in Dubai and Sharjah, which sits between Dubai and Ajman.
Ajman is home to many commuters who
work in the Gulf commercial hub of Dubai, further to the south. Like
Dubai, it is one of the seven emirates that make up the UAE federation
The blaze (pictured) comes less than
three months after a massive fire raced up the exterior of the 63-story
The Address Downtown Dubai, one of Dubai's most prominent hotels. It is
situated next to Dubai's biggest mall and the Burj Khalifa, the world's
tallest skyscraper
Photo: AP
Similar
fires have struck other high-rises built since the turn of this century
in Dubai and Sharjah, which sits between Dubai and Ajman
Falling debris: Building and safety
experts have attributed the spate of fires to a material commonly used
to cover the buildings known as aluminum composite panel cladding.
Debris is pictured falling from the high-rise building in Ajman
Some panels used in buildings in the
Emirates contain a flammable core that can burn rapidly one ignited,
allowing fires to spread quickly on buildings covered with the
panels. It was not immediately clear if the skyscraper in the Ajman fire
had that type of cladding
A YouTube video (pictured) showed
bright yellow flames spreading up the side of the building but reports
say there were no casualties
Building
and safety experts have attributed the spate of fires to a material
commonly used to cover the buildings known as aluminum composite panel
cladding.
Some
panels used in buildings in the Emirates contain a flammable core that
can burn rapidly one ignited, allowing fires to spread quickly on
buildings covered top to bottom with the panels without sufficient fire
breaks along the way.
It
was not immediately clear if the skyscraper in the Ajman fire had that
type of cladding, but images posted on social media appeared to show the
fire burning in a similar fashion.
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