14 injured as skyscraper hotel catches fire during New Year celebrations
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Emergency services were called to the scene as the incident has caused mass chaos with people running for safety in nearby malls.
It was not immediately clear what caused the fire, which ran up at least 20 stories of the building near the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest skyscraper.
Burning debris rained down from the building as firetrucks raced to the scene.
The Dubai Media Office confirmed there were 14 people injured.
‘There are no injuries, thank God … of course, it will not affect the celebration,’ Major General Rashed al-Matrushi, general director of the Dubai Civil Defence, told the live broadcast earlier this evening.
See live tweets of the incident below:
According to reports, everyone is safe and the injured have been rushed to the hospital.
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