Fire breaks out at Tripoli journalist hotel
Thu, 9 Jun 2011 04:11 GMT
TRIPOLI, June 9 (Reuters) - A fire broke out early on Thursday morning at the hotel housing foreign journalists in the Libyan capital Tripoli, a Reuters witness said.
About 100 people, most of them journalists, were evacuated to the parking lot just before 6 a.m. (0400 GMT) after the fire broke out. There were no reports of injuries.
Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim, speaking outside the Rixos Hotel, said the fire had not been caused by any military action, including NATO bombings of the city.
"We have to have an investigation but according to the hotel staff it's an electricity fire in the electricity room of the hotel," Ibrahim said.
"Thankfully everyone is out, everyone is safe."
The blaze sent dark clouds of smoke into the morning sky. Hotel staff were on top of the building spraying the flames with a hose until a fire truck arrived.
(Reporting by Peter Graff, editing by Michael Roddy)
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