Sharjah: A tragic fire in a high -rise residential building in the Al Nahda district of Sharjah cost five lives, including that of a Pakistani worker, while 19 others were injured, two of whom remain in critical condition, local police announced on Tuesday.
“The fire broke out around 11:30 am, when Sharjah police received an emergency call reporting flames pulling in an apartment on the top floor,” the police said in a statement.
The injured are treated at Al Qasimi hospital, and the authorities have launched an investigation into the incident, while the forensic experts examined the site to determine the cause of the fire, the officials said.
Eyewitness said that the fire suddenly broke out on the top floor of the 52 -story building, which housed around 1,500 residents of various ethnic groups.
The emiratic authorities expressed their condolences in a statement, saying: “We express our sincere sympathies to the families of the deceased and share their sorrow during this difficult period.”
Other updates are expected as the investigation continues.
The most recent incident before Sharjah’s high -rise fire, in which Pakistani nationals lost their lives in a water fire, was reported on January 25, 2024 by Gulf Media.
The fire that broke out in an apartment in the Sharjah Muwaileh region cost a Pakistani man and his 11 -year -old daughter. His wife and two other children were hospitalized in critical condition after the incident.
Sixteen people were killed and nine were injured in a residential fire in Dubai in April 2023. The fire engulfed the five-story building in the Al-Ras district, one of the oldest parts of Dubai and housing many migrant workers and traders, according to the newspaper based in Abu Dhabi Le National.
Sharjah is one of the seven Emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates, where several residential and hotels have been affected by fire in recent years.
In some of these cases, experts said that the flames may have been encouraged to spread by the external coating.
