The Modest City of the World whose kingdom violates labor laws, 21 workers luckily just left the building prior to collapse. How lucky were those workers.
This is what you expect when Contarct is sub-let to lower tier cheap contractors to save money.
Now people in surrounding buildings can't sleep.
Dubai a base to jump into emerging bloody business of burning Baghdad and Basra. It's rulers must think before allying with Americans at the cost of blood of Iraqis.
17 August 2009
Twenty-one workers had a narrow escape when a six-storey building that was under construction in the Deira area collapsed on Sunday, a police officer said.
Members of Dubai Police and Fire and Rescue and Civil Defence cordoned the area of a building which collapsed at the corner of 1st and 28th street in Abu Hail, behind Ramada Continenetal Hotel in Deira. No one was reported injured.No one was injured, but nearly a dozen cars were destroyed.
Sniffer dogs searched the rubble till late at night.
The building on Al Ittihad Road at the Galadari Intersection, next to Ramada Continental Hotel, collapsed around 3.30pm, said Brigadier Khalil Al Mansouri, director of General Department of Criminal Investigation.
He said 21 workers were inside the building when they heard the crackling sound. Ten of them rushed to safety, and the remaining 11 were later evacuated, along with people from neighbouring buildings, minutes before the building collapsed.
Colonel Ahmed AL Sayeq, deputy director of Dubai Civil Defence, said the neighbouring buildings were evacuated for fear that water leakage in the ground may have caused the collapse.
The Acting Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police, Major-General Khamis Mattar Al Mazina, said Hazaa Contracting and Bait Al Emarat Engineering Consultants, the building’s developers, will be investigated in coordination with Dubai Municipality.
Marwan Abdullah, head of Building Licensing Unit, Dubai Municipality, said that a team of experts were examining the site.
“We felt tremors and looked outside and saw something like smoke,” said Ishraq Hibib, 17, who lives in Yasmeen building, about 100m from the site .
Ali Hassan, another resident in the area, said, “While I was having lunch I heard a noise and I thought that it was an earthquake. We saw cars under the concrete and glass that covered them.”
Office workers in the area also thought an earthquake had occurred.
“I’m about 400m away. I experienced a jerk in our building and thought it was an earthquake,” said Zainudheen Parissery.
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Readers’ Comments
You people are really very quick to publish the news, my office bldg is just 50 meters away from this bldg which collapsed, we were terrified to hear the sound of the collapse. -Sudesh Kadam, Deira, Dubai
What could be the reason for this building collapse ? I hope there are no casualties in this terrible tragedy. Our request to KT is to give us a detailed investigative report. -Vijay B, Dubai
It was shock me to hear this news but unfortunately nobody is inside the building. Thanks to God. -Madhu, Dubai
It is terrible to hear this incident, as it is a new building under construction and i belives the technology and methods of Engineering, adopted for such recent constructions are the Latest one and the fate is tragic. After this I really afried of staying in my Building, which was constructed 30 years ago and I can assume the technology used for its construction. Authorities should take crucual steps in this regard. -Anwar, Dubai
I am staying just near to this building. As half of the building still standing there, tenants from our building were also moved out as per police instruction. Everybody wondering as it happened to a building under construction with reason unknown. -Saji Prahaladan, Deira
It is a real tragedy... Alhamdolillah there are no casualties... however, I assume that relevant authorities will take strict notice of building material and construction architecture to investigate the cause of this accident. Lately construction companies have been eager to complete their project and compromise on quality... I urge authorities to vigilantly check various projects to ensure safety of residents.... -Safdar Khan, Sharjah
It shows the poor quality of construction. To make extra profits in these recession days, contracotrs are compromising on the quality and the result is this. -Sree, Doha
Good quality material always collapses, this is what the contractor might have to say in defence. -Kaptain Mirza, Abu Dhabi
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