Residents mill about as Al Madinah hotel is felled.
On the face of it, exclusion zones are pretty much the same whether you’re from Surrey, Scotland, Savannah or Saudi Arabia. But there is one marked difference between the first three and the final one.
In most places in the world, the impending implosion or felling of a structure is pre-empted by a period of silence as interested parties look on from a safe distance. In Saudi Arabia, it appears, they have no time for such formalities and just go about their daily business. Indeed, the only allowance they seem to make for the building that’s falling right by them is to walk a little bit faster:
