A fire broke out in the third floor of a hotel consisting of four floors in Ibrahim Al-Khalil Street in Al-Misfalah neighborhood on Thursday morning resulted in the injury of 18 people suffering from suffocation. The Spokesman of Civil Defense in Makkah region Colonel Saeed Sarhan pointed out that the Civil Defense teams managed to evacuate 200 persons from the hotel, noting that 17 cases including one fire fighter were treated by Red Crescent at the site, while one case was admitted to the hospital.
