Footage captures the scenes inside the Mall of the Emirates, after the ceiling of shop partially collapsed due to heavy rain. Water can be seen gushing at incredible speed from the ceiling of a Flying Tiger Copenhagen store inside the shopping centre in Dubai. Further footage shows roads in the downtown area completely flooded, as the United Arab Emirates experienced the heaviest rainfall on record - with a year and a half's worth of rain falling on Tuesday.
Heavy rains battered parts of the Middle East on Tuesday, closing schools in the United Arab Emirates and flooding the tarmac at Dubai International Airport. In Oman, at least 18 people have died in recent days due to the severe weather. The storms swamped roadways and created dangerous conditions across the region, a normally arid part of the world that is unaccustomed to intense rainfall and flash flooding. Flights into the Dubai airport were temporarily diverted as a result of the “continued...