A thick pall of black smoke hung over the city on Wednesday morning. A massive explosion in an illegal firework warehouse in the Al Quoz industrial area has already claimed 8 lives and caused chaos throughout the city. Schools were (pointlessly) evacuated and traffic was brought to a virtual standstill by rubber neckers.
There were more fireworks at the Dubai World Cup, the world's richest horse race and the premier social event of the year in Dubai. The hat shops certainly did well this week as Dubai's beautiful people preened themselves on the paddock lawns. I will remember it for ridiculous queues of over an hour to get in and an ugly scramble to get on the buses back to the car park and taxi rank afterwards. The fireworks were good though.
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