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Fire Erupts Simultaneously At Al-Aqsa Mosque And Notre Dame

Published April 16, 2019 | 03:49 PM

Fire erupts simultaneously at Al-Aqsa mosque and Notre Dame

News of Al-Aqsa Mosque fire was largely overshadowed by a much larger blaze engulfing the Notre Dame Cathedral at the same time.

Jerusalem (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 16th April, 2019) Fire erupted in the Holy Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem just as flames ravaged the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

Footage showing smoke and fire emerging from the roof of a structure known as the Marwani prayer Room, or Solomon's Stables, could be seen on social media.

The Palestine news Agency, the official outlet of the Palestinian National Authority, cited a guard as saying that "the fire broke out in the guard's room outside the roof of the Marwani Prayer Room, and the fire brigade of the Islamic Waqf handled the matter successfully."

The Marwani Prayer Room is located underneath the southeastern corner of the Temple Mount, known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, which contains both the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque.

News of the incident at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in islam and central to the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict, was largely overshadowed by a much larger blaze engulfing the Notre Dame Cathedral at the same time.

A huge fire swept through the roof of the famed Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris on Monday evening, sending flames and huge clouds of grey smoke billowing into the sky.

The flames and smoke plumed from the spire and roof of the gothic cathedral, visited by millions of people a year.

The huge blaze has now been extinguished, the city's fire service announced on Tuesday, around 15 hours after it first broke out.

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