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Video courtesy of Alan J shows large pieces of burning material spilling down from a blaze engulfing the 84-storey Torch Tower in Dubai in the early hours of Friday morning, marking the second time the building has experienced a major fire in just two years. Emergency services converged around the fifth tallest residential building in the United Arab Emirates, fighting the flames and rescuing residents still trapped in the tower.
Massive flames envelop a luxury hotel near the Burj Khalifa tower, the world's largest building, in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai. Vanessa Johnston reports.
Rescue teams and volunteers continued to comb through the rubble of a collapsed school in Mexico City in search of trapped survivors, in the aftermath of a magnitude 7.1 earthquake, on Wednesday. Reports have provided conflicting information, with sources stating that up to 26 bodies have been found, 21 of which were children, and that 11 people have been rescued. The disaster has so far claimed the lives of at least 237 people, with the death toll expected to rise, while some 52 people had been pulled alive from collapsed buildings.
Residents of Mexico City described their ordeals the morning after a deadly earthquake on Wednesday killed over 200 people and destroyed several dozen buildings. One survivor described how she was unable to escape her apartment and could only look on in horror as the quake shook the building. A different resident was able to leave her apartment, but feared for her life in doing so.
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