QATAR | Blaze
A fire that broke out in an unattended plot in the middle of a densely-populated area in Fariq Bin Mahmoud in Doha created a scare in the locality for a while yesterday. The incident was reported around 2pm. Plumes of thick black smoke that billowed into the sky created the impression that it was a major fire but it was contained before it spread to neighbouring compounds which housed residential apartments. The timely arrival of firefighters contained the blaze within 30 minutes. There were no reports of casualties and injuries. Sources told Gulf Times that the Bin Mahmoud area had witnessed a number of fires in the last one year and except for one of them, the others were minor. Most of the incidents were reported in locations between the new signal on the C-Ring road and the signal near the Hamad Medical Corporation.