Fire breaks out in another high-rise tower in Dubai Marina

It was second time in two-and-a-half yrs that more than 1,100-foot-tall tower has caught fire

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A has struck another high-rise in the Marina, just days after a blaze struck one of the world's tallest residential towers in the same neighbourhood.

Witnesses said firefighters had already begun spraying water inside of the today.


Emergency officials could not immediately be reached for comment.

Early on Friday, a blaze hit the 86-story Torch nearby.

It was the second time in two-and-a-half years that the more than 1,100-foot-tall (335 meters) has been ravaged by The Torch, located in Dubai's popular water-front Marina district, also caught in February 2015. There were no major reported in either blaze.