britexpat76

Is on fire......

http://www.qatarliving.com/node/3013642

Patsy Stoned

http://dohanews.co/post/23919755454/...ll-around-11am

co durham boy

It's very bad news i'm hearing , there's a lot of children involved .

Autonomy

Have seen lots of unconfirmed reports of deaths ranging from from 1 to 33 - I think there will have been some... Conference announced from MOI at 6pm.

Looks like tragic event.

britexpat76

It does look that way. I have seen pictures of people being carried out. Not good.

britexpat76

Just been confirmed, 13 children have died, 4 teachers and 2 Civil Defence personnel, 17 injured. Mostly civil defence staff.....

Very sad.

al dente

Oh god. That's awful news.

lullabelle

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middle...025997336.html

Terrible. Poor families.

Tockalosh

Terrible loss of life

Wonder if there is someone, responsible and accountable for installing the non functioning sprinkler system; if the reports are to be believed.

soukie

Terrible news - makes you wonder about Mall safety in the Gulf - I have never seen a fire drill in all the years we have been here only plenty of false alarms in tower blocks in the middle of the night. My thoughts are with the families of the victims.

OleJanx

You can rest assured that that particular can of worms is destined to remain shut and never mentioned ever again.

lullabelle

I was never in any fire drills - but there were real fires in both the building I lived in Abu Dhabi and in Al Khudrawi on the shoreline. Both times the alarm was intermittent and there was chaos.

It sounds like it was a total cock up in that mall with restricted access, no plans, no sprinklers, only one narrow entrance to the kids area... Beggars belief.

They'll have to have some answers - The world cup isn't too far away and the world is watching to see how they deal with this.

Oyibopeppeh

It was shameful that they were awarded the World Cup in the first place. But we all know why.

At least the IOC had the sense to keep their hands off the brown envelopes.

I was in Doha yesterday and today....just come back home and seen this tragedy, it's horrific.

Ethos83

Appalling.

One would think since malls in the Gulf are so vast that whenever a fire breaks out there's plenty of room for people to get away from the fire and out of the mall. It must be how the children's play area was situated or closed off from the rest of the mall that allowed it to be engulfed by the fire so quickly.

Autonomy

your last three words are all that count. you should be ashamed. talking about football - FFS, really?