{"id":24930,"date":"2020-05-06T17:32:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T12:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/fire-breaks-out-at-uae-residential-tower-seven-injuries-reported\/"},"modified":"2020-05-06T17:32:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T12:02:57","slug":"fire-breaks-out-at-uae-residential-tower-seven-injuries-reported-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=24930","title":{"rendered":"Fire breaks out at UAE residential tower, seven injuries reported"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/fire-breaks-out-at-uae-residential-tower-seven-injuries-reported\/article31514694.ece\">Reuters<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Firefighters brought under control a fire that broke out at a residential tower in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday night, Sharjah&#8217;s government media office said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seven people were treated for minor injuries from the fire in the tower in Sharjah&#8217;s Al Nahda area and taken to hospital for treatment, the media office tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fire breaks out at UAE residential tower, seven injuries reported\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lmd7PLe50BI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Videos on social media purportedly of the fire showed burning debris falling from a tower engulfed in flames, which local media said was the 48-storey Abbco Tower. Reuters could not immediately verify the footage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Residents of the tower were evacuated, Sharjah media office said. It did not say whether the cause of the fire was known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters Firefighters brought under control a fire that broke out at a residential tower in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday night, Sharjah&#8217;s government media office said. Seven people were treated for minor injuries from the fire in the tower in Sharjah&#8217;s Al Nahda area and taken to hospital for treatment, the media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}