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Dubai, United Arab Emirates — A fire in a residential building in Dubai killed 16 people and injured nine others in the wealthy Gulf emirate, the government said Sunday.
The fire broke out at midday Saturday on the fourth floor of the building in the Al-Ras neighborhood in the old part of the city.
The civil defense force said preliminary investigations showed the fire was caused by a “lack of compliance with building security and safety requirements,” the government’s media office said in a statement.
