ABU DHABI - Fire erupted in an apartment in a 18-storeyed tower in the Capital’s Tourist Club Area on Sunday, resulting in minor suffocation to 13 residents, an official from the Abu Dhabi Civil Defence said on Monday.
The fire was a flat in the 14th floor of the tower but there were no casualties, said Lt. Colonel Hamad Saeed Al Rayami, Director of the Department of Civil Defence Centres at the General Directorate of Civil Defence in Abu Dhabi.