Thick black smoke billowed over the Doha horizon this evening, after a fire broke out in the Bin Mahmoud Area around 5pm.
It isn’t yet clear what caused the blaze, but firefighters were seen rushing toward the area via C-Ring road.
Just saw fire brigade tanker rushing towards C ring road side… @dohanews
— Salman Khan (@de_ingeniero) February 28, 2014
One resident said it looked like it was labor housing, and that it was brought under control pretty quickly:
https://twitter.com/sameerausa/status/439405127393234944
https://twitter.com/sameerausa/status/439407857960620032
Minutes later, the Ministry of Interior confirmed it had doused the fire at a house in the area.
الدفاع المدني يسيطر وبشكل نهائي على حريق في احد المنازل بمنطقة بن محمود دون مصابين
— وزارة الداخلية – قطر (@MOI_Qatar) February 28, 2014
It said there were no injuries.
Did you see what happened?