About 600 pilgrims, who had gathered for the annual Hajj in Mecca city, escaped being burnt alive after a fire reportedly broke out in a hotel in Saudi Arabia on Monday.
Nayef al-Sharif, the spokesman for the country’s civil defence service, said no casualties were reported in the fire. He said the fire was sparked by a faulty air cooling unit on the eighth floor of the hotel in Azaziyah district.
Sharif added that all 600 residents, most of whom had come from Turkey and Yemen for the hajj pilgrimage, were evacuated and had since returned to the hotel.
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