Sharjah fire guts 16 warehouses: Passports, post-dated cheques destroyed
A major fire in the Sharjah’s Industrial Area 13, near the Bin Laden roundabout on Monday night continued till Tuesday morning, destroying 16 of 22 warehouses in the zone.
No casualties or injuries have been reported.
“This is the third time warehouses in the area have caught fire. We have lost everything,” said one of the owners of a warehouse.
“Everything is purchased on credit and payment cheques were kept in the office,” he said, adding that other trading companies that leased warehouses in the complex have also incurred heavy losses.
“We just managed to escape because the Civil Defence cordoned off the area and prevented the fire from spreading,” said an official from the New Delhi Trading Company.
“We had supplied five gallon bottles of mineral water to one of the companies located in the complex.