Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. Fire breaks out in the Torch tower at Dubai marina. Mobile phone footage captured by Digby Taylor, head of operations at GN Broadcasting, shows a massive fire breaking out in the Torch tower at Dubai marina, one of the tallest residential buildings in the world. The tower reaches 336.1 m (1105 ft) in height with 79 floors above ground.
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00:00This is Digby Taylor, at about 2.30 in the morning, as you can see behind me, the fifth
00:10highest residential building in the world is now fully on fire.
00:15It seems that the fire started on the 51st floor and is jumping up.
00:19The huge winds this evening are causing the fire just over tens of floors at the moment
00:27and the fire is just escalating, debris just dropping down to the floor at an enormous
00:31rate at the moment.
00:32It's spreading across, we've seen it jumping across to the Princess Tower, the highest
00:37residential building in the world.
00:38Fire services are here at the moment, firemen are going into the building but as such no
00:43firefighting is taking place.
00:45Pleased to say there's no panic amongst the people but my goodness this is a serious disaster.