Movies of the huge fireplace that engulfed the dome of the Jami Mosque in North Jakarta in Indonesia throughout renovation on Wednesday, have emerged on-line.

Dramatic footage confirmed the second the dome collapsed right into a plume of mud and smoke round 3pm on Wednesday.

The native police have confirmed that no one was injured throughout the incident. Nonetheless, the investigation into it’s ongoing and authorities mentioned 4 employees of the corporate contracted to renovate the mosque, have been interrogated to this point.

The mosque is contained in the constructing advanced of Jakarta Islamic Centre, a think-tank on Islamic research and improvement. The Islamic centre additionally homes instructional, business and analysis services.

In line with the top of the mosque Muhammad Subki, the fireplace broke out when employees of a building firm have been busy with renovation work.

“The hearth started to appear from the highest of the dome after which unfold to different areas, however to this point it’s not clear what brought on the fireplace,” he mentioned.

He added that the fireplace unfold rapidly as a consequence of sturdy wind and engulfed a big a part of the mosque.

By the way, Gulf Immediately reported that in 2002 too the mosque’s dome caught fireplace throughout renovation in October of that yr. It had taken firefighters 5 hours to extinguish the blaze.

Locals have been saddened by the tragic incident and expressed their shock on social media. One wrote: “At all times tragic to see historic spiritual buildings destroyed by fireplace.”

One other wrote: “Studies counsel the constructing was present process renovation – such works carry sizzling works & different fireplace hazards. Sadly as we noticed with #NotreDame #ShuriCastle #WindsorCastle & different main fires the devastating lack of cultural icons.”

Others mentioned that the visible “breaks my coronary heart”.

The collapse of the dome of the Jami mosque comes just some weeks after the soccer stadium stampede that killed greater than 130 folks. The federal government introduced that the Kanjuruhan stadium in Malang can be torn down and rebuilt.