Fire rips through one of the world's tallest residential buildings in Dubai

Britons have told of their terror as hundreds of residents were evacuated from one of the world's tallest residential buildings after it was engulfed in flames in the early hours of this morning in Dubai.

Pictures and video footage showed a large blaze ripping through multiple floors of the Marina Torch tower, a new tower in the expat-heavy Marina district of the city.

More than a dozen fire trucks were able to extinguish the blaze several hours after the fire alarm went off around 2am local time.

One eyewitness said flames shot out from two sides of the building as glass and metal rained down from near the summit of the 79-storey skyscraper, which stands more 330 metres tall (1,105 ft) READMORE

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