Major fire breaks out in Dubai residential building

November 23, 2015

Dubai, Nov 23: A huge fire broke out in a residential building on Salah Al Deen street near the Dubai Police station in Muraqqabat, the Dubai Police said on Monday.

The fire at the five-storey building has spread to another five-storey building nearby, with the top floor of one building completely destroyed by the blaze.

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Fire fighters and dozens of fire trucks are struggling to prevent the fire from spreading to a nearby petrol station. They are also evacuating a section of Crowne Plaza Hotel.

Police have closed Salah Al Deen Street to traffic as fire fighters doused the blaze that started at around 5:52pm, a Civil Defence spokesman said.

Teams from three fire stations–Al Hamriya, Rashidiya and Al Qusais–are battling the fire. It was not immediately known if there are injuries or fatalities.

The area has been cordoned off and Muraqqabat street has been shut down to traffic.

Dubai Metro services between Salah Al Deen Street and Abu Bakr Siddique stations on the Green Line have been suspended, sources from the Roads and Transport Authority told Gulf News. The services will resume once the fire is controlled, they added.

Thousands of people have gathered on the road near Muraqqabat police station, leading to a massive traffic jam and authorities are urging people stay away from Deira area.

In a Twitter message, the Dubai Police urged the public to exercise caution.

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January 17,2025

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Despite the announcement of a ceasefire deal, Israel has intensified its airstrikes and artillery shelling on Gaza, especially its residential buildings, killing more than 100 Palestinians.

Gaza’s civil defense said on Friday at least 101 Palestinians, including 27 children and 31 women, have been killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza since the ceasefire announcement on Wednesday.

The attacks have also left more than 264 injured, according to the rescue agency.

Most of the killings came in Gaza City.

The report comes as Israeli attacks have shown no sign of slowing on the ground, with dozens of strikes reported on Friday.

In northern Gaza’s Jabalia, nine members of a Palestinian journalist’s family, including women and children, were killed.

Two more Palestinians were killed in a separate Israel airstrike in the Jabalia al-Balad area, in the north of Gaza. 

Jabalia has come under fierce attack since the Gaza ceasefire announcement this week. On Thursday, at least 20 were killed in one attack in the area.

At least five others were also killed in another attack that targeted a home, east of Khan Younis City, in Southern Gaza on Friday.

To the west of Khan Younis, three people were killed in attacks on tents housing displaced people.

Another tent was targeted in Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, killing one person.

That's while Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would convene his cabinet later on Friday to approve the long-awaited ceasefire.

Israel launched a genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime's decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.

The regime’s bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed at least 46,788 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured more than 110,453 others. Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under rubble.

The ceasefire, announced on Wednesday, consists of three phases and would come into effect on Sunday over 42 days.

The truce deal stipulates that a large-scale prisoner exchange will occur, including the release of 1,000 prisoners from Gaza and hundreds of detainees serving lengthy sentences.

The first stage involves the release of 33 captives, including "children, women, female soldiers, men above 50, and the wounded and sick," as well as a gradual, partial withdrawal of invading Israeli units.

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