Fire fighters and members of the civil defence finish putting out a fire in a small room located beside a villa in the area of 15th and 32nd streets in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Pawel Dwulit /The National

Fire destroys Abu Dhabi store

Erin Conroy

A fire destroyed a store attached to a villa near 15th Street and Al Khaleej Al Arabi Street in Abu Dhabi yesterday, but four fire engines sent to the scene in the early afternoon contained the blaze before it could spread to the home.

Nobody was injured and the cause of the fire was unknown.

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