US EditionFire in Kuwaiti building housing workers kills 41, deputy PM says
- At least 41 people died and many were injured in a massive fire in a building in Mangaf, Kuwait, with most victims suffocating.
- The fire started in an apartment building overcrowded with foreign workers, according to Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Fahad Yusuf Saud Al-Sabah.
- State news agency KUNA reported that 15 people were injured in the fire, which was controlled after the incident.
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At least 49 people died in a high-rise building fire in Kuwait.
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 …
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