The massive blaze quickly shot up the 63-story Address Hotel in the downtown area of the Gulf metropolis, covering nearly the entire structure and sending hundreds of people fleeing for safety.

"The left side of the hotel is completely gone," Al Jazeera's Diana al-Rifai reported from the scene. "There's a minor stampede - panic has set in and people are running away."

Police closed off the area and emergency teams were working to put out the fire.

The blaze started on the 20th floor of the building and only affected the outside of the structure, Dubai's media office said.

Rifai said big pieces of the building were falling from the sky and thick black smoke blanketed the entire city. Helicopters were hovering around the blaze, she said.

"Apparently the fire has been put out at the top of the hotel, but lower levels are still burning. I've never seen anything like this in my life," said Rifai.

It was not immediately clear what caused the blaze, which ran up dozens of stories of the building near the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest skyscraper at 828 metres.


www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/12/fire-engulfs-dubai-tower-year-celebrations-151231175202927.html

Thank God no casualties

Kkkk

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the beautiful dubai

ohhhh sorry




new update
http://opeyemiie..co.id/2015/12/read-president-buhari-new-year-message.html?m=0#more

Awww

Thank God it is not our Sheraton, I can't even imagine what the causality record will look like.

Not all Muslims are isils, some are bokoharam, Taliban and alshabab

Hopefully the hotel is insured! If not....

must i comment

oilykid:
Not all Muslims are isils, some are bokoharam, Taliban and alshabab

foolish man must u show everyone that you are an Ill mannered goat