Video: Dubai's Torch tower catches fire again

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Fire 'spread rapidly' through a skyscraper in Dubai's world-famous Marina in the early hours of this morning. Alarming footage showed flames climbing up the 79-storey Torch Tower, a residential building popular with expats in the United Arab Emirates tourism hotspot. Burning debris could be seen spiraling down to the ground below as firefighters desperately tackled the blaze. The same skyscraper was devastated by fire in 2015 and the building's flammable cladding, which was similar to that used in Grenfell Tower, was blamed for fuelling the flames. (Daily Mail)

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p nonis Friday, 04 August 2017 08:48 AM

These are the dangers of sky craper flats. TheMovie "Towering inferno" and some other movies have showed the danger of a fire.Apart from the losses incurred and some times Lives

Saman Friday, 04 August 2017 08:59 AM

That's why its called Torch Tower.

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