Dubai: Rescue crews in Dubai have evacuated a 34-story residential tower after a fire gutted portions of the building. There was no immediate word on casualties.
The blaze on Sunday charred the outside of the structure and send gray smoke drifting over a major development known as Jumeirah Lakes Towers, a cluster of high-rise apartment buildings and shops on the southern edge of Dubai.
Residents of the adjoining two nearby towers of the same cluster were evacuated as the blaze spread from top to the floors below. Civil defense officials did not give immediate details on possible casualties or the cause of the predawn fire, Al- Arabiya Channel reported.