Photos : Fire gutted 34-story luxury high-rise building in Dubai

Rescue crews in Dubai have evacuated a 34-story residential tower after a fire gutted portions of the building.

The blaze on Sunday charred the outside of the structure and send gray smoke drifting over a major development known as Jumeirah Lakes Towers, a cluster of high-rise apartment buildings and shops on the southern edge of Dubai.

The development company said in a statement that, 'emergency services have contained the fire in Tamweel Tower, Cluster U, Jumeirah Lakes Towers.'