Fire in Kuwaiti building housing workers kills 41, deputy PM says

At least 40 Indians die in a fire at a building housing foreign workers in Kuwait

A fire swept through a building that housed foreign workers in Kuwait early Wednesday, killing at least 40 Indian nationals, the Indian government said.

At least 49 people died in a high-rise building fire in Kuwait.

At least 49 dead in Kuwait residential building fire

The fire in a complex housing foreign workers was blamed on code violations

At Least 41 Die in Fire at Building Housing Foreign Workers in Kuwait

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—A fire swept through a building that housed foreign workers in Kuwait early Wednesday, killing at least 41 people. Officials said the blaze appeared to be linked to code violations. Interior Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousuf Al-Sabah confirmed the toll and ordered the arrest of the building’s owner during a visit to the site, local media reported. “We will address the issue of labor overcrowding,” he said. “I’m now goin…

Kuwait. At least 49 people died this Wednesday in a building fire in Kuwait, in an area where many foreign workers live, according to a new report from the Ministry of the Interior. The accident occurred in the peripheral neighborhood of Mangaf, south of the capital, and left about forty people injured, the Ministry of Health said in a statement. The fire started on the lower floors of a building inhabited by Asian workers and spread rapidly to …

Fire kills 49 in building housing workers in Kuwait

A fire killed 49 people in Kuwait when it ripped through a building housing nearly 200 foreign workers, the government said.