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<div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery"><b>Towering inferno has ripped through a residential skyscraper in the United Arab Emirates &#8211; the third such incident in a year</b></div>
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<p class="imageCaption"><span style="color:#660000;"><b><span style="font-size:x-large;"> <i> Hundreds of people were forced to flee when a towering inferno ripped through a residential skyscraper in the UAE<br />
Huge blaze, which broke out in the emirate of Ajman late on Monday, is the third such incident in a little over a year<br />
Images shared on social media showed bright yellow flames spreading up the side of building in city north of Dubai</i></span></b></span></p>
<p><a name="more"></a><span style="color:#660000;"><b><span style="font-size:x-large;"><i> </i> But reports in the UAE say there were no casualties and that everyone was evacuated from the tower in al-Sawan</span></b></span></p>
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</b><span style="font-size:small;"><b>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</b></span></div>
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<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;">A towering inferno has ripped through a residential skyscraper in the United Arab Emirates &#8211; the third such incident in just over a year.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;">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. </span></div>
<p><span style="font-size:1.2em;">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.</span></p>
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</i><b><span style="font-size:small;">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</span></b></div>
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<div class="imageCaption"><span style="font-size:small;"><b>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</b></span></div>
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<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;">The Emirati interior minister, Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, rushed to Ajman to help coordinate the response to the blaze, Ajman police said.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;">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.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;">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.</span></div>
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<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;">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.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;">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&#8217;s most prominent hotels. It is situated next to Dubai&#8217;s biggest mall and the Burj Khalifa, the world&#8217;s tallest skyscraper. </span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;">Similar fires have struck other high-rises built since the turn of this century in Dubai and Sharjah, which sits between Dubai and Ajman a</span><span style="font-size:1.2em;">ttributed the spate of fires to a material commonly used to cover the buildings known as aluminum composite panel cladding. </span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;">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.</span></div>
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