fri 01 jan 2016, 07:27

Uncertainty after fire in luxury hotel Dubai

DUBAI –

The surroundings of the hotel in the centre of Dubai, where Thursday night a violent fire raged, is Friday still closed. According to a reporter from al-Jazeera no one had expected that there is such a large fire in the Address Downtown Hotel could break out. ,,The building belongs to the most protected buildings in the area.”

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It is not clear what the cause of the fire is. According to unconfirmed reports is that on a balcony on the twentieth floor arise. The fire has only the exterior of the property damaged. ,,The left side is totally gone,” said the reporter. The fire broke great panic. According to a guest of the hotel, did the sprinklers do not. Also went to the fire alarm off.

A person got a heart attack, and fifteen others were slightly wounded. The building, which in 2008 came, has 63 floors above ground and is about 300 metres high. It boasts of almost two hundred rooms and six hundred apartments.