Viral Videos Show Fire Breaking Out in Genting and Visitors Being Forced to Evacuate Building

In a recent series of videos being circulated online, it is said that Genting was apparently ablaze!

The videos that were circulated via Whatsapp and Facebook garnered over thousands of shares. This incident happened just today at 6.13pm, according to The Star.

The videos showed fire raging at one of the areas in the popular entertainment spot – namely the area where the escalators that connect to First World Genting were.

Source: Facebook

Here are the videos of the fire:

Thick black smoke can be seen rising up from the blaze while bystanders stood across the area, taking in the unusual sight. And it goes without saying many were recording that situation lah!

Source: Facebook

Another video shows our Abang bomba rushing to the scene to fight the fire.

It can also be seen that visitors were asked to evacuate the smoke-filled building as shutters to retail outlets have all been let down.

The man who recorded the video can be heard saying,

“It’s danger alright. Black smoke, black smoke (is rising from the building). This is a huge incident.”

It is unclear how the fire was started, especially since it’s raging in the building at such intensity. Currently, the authorities are investigating the cause of the fire.

Many netizens speculated that it could be due to someone losing a lot of money while gambling, hence trying to seek revenge. Let’s just wait till they release an official statement alright?

Currently there are no reports of the incident as of yet. We hope no one was harmed in this incident.

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