A huge explosion rocked Dubai tonight as a fire tore through a container ship at the biggest port in the Middle East.

Locals said the blast shook windows, with a fireball seen shooting into the sky above Jebel Ali Port.

The blaze is said to be ‘under control’ now, with no deaths or injuries reported.

Seif Eddine Mouelhi told Sky News she ‘heard a double blast and felt a light wind coming to me’ as she sat on her balcony working.

She said: ‘I was looking to the sky if this was a thunderstorm or an airplane breaking the supersonic wall.

‘I am living 23km [14 miles] from the area where the explosion happened – I’m living in Business Bay and the explosion happened in Jebel Ali.’

The media office for Dubai said in a tweet: ‘A fire has been reported to have broken out in a container within a ship anchored in Jebel Ali Port. A Dubai Civil Defense team is working to put out the blaze.’

An update later read: ‘A fire caused by an explosion within a container on board a ship at Jebel Ali Port has been brought under control; no causalities have been reported.’

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