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29 March 2024

13 hurt in 14th floor fire in Abu Dhabi

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Civil defence units succeeded in averting a disaster when they put out a fire that flared at a 14th-floor apartment and threatened the building’s residents.

The incident at the 18-storey building in the Tourist Club area on Sunday night caused slight smoke inhalation problems to 13 people who were treated on the spot. One old woman was taken to hospital for treatment.

Police said they were still investigating the cause of the fire which slightly damaged some parked cars after glass windows were hit.

Drunk man falls to death at party in Dubai Marina

A man fell to his death from a building in Dubai Marina Promenade area on Friday evening, a Dubai Police source confirmed to Emirates 24|7.

Although more information could not be provided by the official at the time of writing, it was heard that the man had been drinking at a party in a building opposite Amwaj Towers.

A website for female expatriates all over the world, a person calling herself Khatooon wrote:

“What I heard is really sad. Apparently some drunk guy at a party had fallen from the building and died. For some reason the police were arresting everyone at the party. This is from a friend who was stuck in the traffic and had heard the story from the building’s security. Horrible  story.”

Another person calling herself Hebahi wrote:

“We were driving there last night around 10 pm and there were many police cars. However, we didn't see any damaged car which leads me to believe it couldn't have been a collision. I believe there was at least one covered body on the ground.”

In addition to a frightening number of children falling from the window or balcony of high-rise buildings in the past few months, the incident adds to a number of fatal falls among adults in the UAE.

Earlier this year, a 28-year-old Russian woman plunged to her instant death from the sixth floor of a Sharjah building.

On 22 November 2011 a mother jumped from the window of the eighth floor of her building in Jumeirah Lakes Towers after her son had fallen to his death from the same window.

On October 15, 2011 a 34-year-old Briton plunged to his death from the window of his Dubai Marina apartment.
 

35-year-old daughter was arrested for disobedience Saudi Arabia

Saudi police arrested a 35-year-old local girl just a month after she was released and court officials said it was her choice as she refused to return to her father.

The girl, an assistant dentist, was first arrested because she left her father’s house and lived with her divorced mother, saying he had refused her marriage and that he had a big family from the second wife.

The problem began when a man came to the girl’s house and asked to marry her but the father rejected him. When she protested and said she would go to her mother, the father threatened to kill her if she leaves.

“But she carried out her threat and went to live with her mother…police later came and arrested her after her father reported her for disobedience,” the Saudi Arabic language daily Sharq said in a report from the western Red Sea port of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia’s second largest city.

It said she was released after three months and handed over to her uncle but her father again insisted that she returns home.

“Police then gave her a choice either to return to her father or go back to prison…the girl chose prison,” the paper said, adding that relatives are trying to mediate a solution to the problem.