Fire

The authorities in Dubai are trying to find out what caused the fire that engulfed the five-star luxury hotel, Address Downtown Hotel on New Year’s Eve.

The fire broke out at about 21:30 local time (17:30 GMT) and appeared to engulf most part of Address Downtown within 10 minutes, as BBC reports.

The number of people who lost their lives in a fire and a stampede in a nightclub in Bucharest, Romania on Friday has reached 32.

The number of people killed in Romanian club fire reached 30, as three more died on Sunday. Hospital sources said dozens others were in critical condition.

At least 42 people, most of them elderly, were killed when a coach collided with a lorry and caught fire in southwest France on Oct. 23, in the country's worst road accident for three decades.

A major wildfire erupted near the western port city of Patras on Monday afternoon, burning forestland, scrubs and crops.

Two fire-fighters were injured during efforts to extinguish the blaze. The wildfire was reportedly brought under control in the evening.

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A South Korean man set himself on fire Aug. 12 outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul during a large protest over Japan's forced recruitment of sex slaves to service military brothels during World War II.

The fire, which has been raging in a coniferous forest near the town of Dragoman in western Bulgaria, was contained on Tuesday.

However extinguishing of the flames is still continuing and is being hampered by the difficult accessibility of the area, private bTV station informs.

The most probable cause of the fire is a military drill at the tank training area.

A 38-year-old fire-fighter has lost his life in the fires raging in California’s Modoc National Forest. Thousands of fire-fighters continued to battle blazes all around California Saturday.

A wildfire has been raging near the village of Sopovo, located in the municipality of Boboshevo in western Bulgaria.

The fire initially originated in pastures, but later spread to beech and oak forests, daily Dnevnik reports.