DUBAI: Emirati billionaire and philanthropist Majid Al Futtaim, who rose from working as a bank clerk to creating an eponymous business empire, including a massive Dubai mall with an indoor ski slope, died on Friday.

Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced Al Futtaim's death in a post on Twitter, praising him as one of the sheikhdom's "most important merchants."

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