{"id":17151,"date":"2018-10-03T00:23:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T00:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17151"},"modified":"2018-10-03T00:23:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T00:23:40","slug":"six-children-among-eight-family-members-killed-in-abu-dhabi-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17151","title":{"rendered":"Six children among eight family members killed in Abu Dhabi house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1381396\/middle-east\" readability=\"65\">\n<p>\nDUBAI: Eight members of an Emirati family were killed and one person was injured in a devastating house fire in the United Arab Emirates early on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe fire ripped through the family\u2019s villa in Baniyas, an area of Abu Dhabi, killing six children and two women, the Dubai-based Al-Bayan newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>\nOfficials said they suffocated from the fire\u2019s smoke.<\/p>\n<p>\nMohammad Al-Kotheiri, a relative of the victims, told local TV that the fire erupted on the ground floor of the two-storey house.<\/p>\n<p>\nAuthorities in Abu Dhabi, the UAE capital, did not immediately comment on the deaths but have opened an investigation to determine the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever,\u00a0Abu Dhabi officials urged the public to \u201cstick to safety measures at home and ensure the maintenance of fire-prevention equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nCondolences for the family poured in from people across the UAE.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe blaze comes after a similar fire killed seven children in the UAE emirate of Fujairah in January.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe tragedy prompted Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, Dubai\u2019s ruler and the UAE\u2019s prime minister and vice president, to say the country would install fire alarms in all citizens\u2019 homes.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Eight members of an Emirati family were killed and one person was injured in a devastating house fire in the United Arab Emirates early on Tuesday. The fire ripped through the family\u2019s villa in Baniyas, an area of Abu Dhabi, killing six children and two women, the Dubai-based Al-Bayan newspaper reported. Officials said they&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}