50 workers rescued from fire in Makkah

MAKKAH: Fifty workers of the Alawi Tunsi Driving School were rescued on Friday from a fire in Muzdalifah.

Ten Civil Defense teams responded to the inferno that was sparked at a warehouse on the school’s compound at around 5 a.m. No injuries were reported. The cause of the fire is unknown.

This fire follows one early Thursday in Makkah where hundreds of Pakistani pilgrims were evacuated from a building. No injuries were reported in that fire but the building’s security guard reportedly suffered smoke inhalation and was attended to at the scene.