كوارث الحرائق في دبي خلال عام

A picture shows damage caused by a fire that broke out in a hostel in the Naif old quarter of the Gulf emirate of Dubai on August 27, 2008. Eleven Asian workers, most of them Indians, died and six others were injured in the fire that broke out in the cramped hostel while they were asleep, reports said today. Dubai deputy police chief General Khamis al-Mazeina told Gulf News that the hostel had been divided up into dormitories each sleeping as many as 25 workers. (Getty Images)