120 Residents evacuated from building in UAQ

A fire broke out in an apartment building in Umm Al Quwain on Thursday morning.

In a tweet posted by the Umm Al Quwain civil defence from its twitter handle @997uaq, the authority said: “Fire brigades of the Civil Defense Department in Umm Al Quwain managed to control a fire that broke out in one of the apartments in Al Rawdha area in Umm Al Quwain, without causing any human casualties.”