Staff horrified as they’re forced to flee ‘burning’ skyscraper during fire drill in bad taste echo of 9/11 attacks

THIS IS the nail-biting moment employees were forced to flee their offices in a panic as part of an eerily-realistic fire drill in China. 

Smoke billowed from the Chow Tai Fook building in Guangzhou during a fire exercise on Wednesday to see how quickly staff could get outside to safety.

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Workers were marched out of the skyscraper in the morning after a fire alarm sounded in the building.

Images of the planned evacuation were strikingly similar to those taken during 9/11, when Islamic terror group al-Qaedea carried out four attacks on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre in New York City, causing $3trillion USD in costs.

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The attacks resulted in the deaths of 2,996 people, leaving over 6,000 with injuries.

High-rise buildings are notoriously difficult to evacuate.

According to the , the taller a building is, "the more complex the problems become, with some super-tall skyscrapers requiring two or three hours to get everyone out".

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