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Most of the victims in a deadly blaze that engulfed a block housing immigrant workers were from India, Kuwait's foreign minister said on Thursday, raising the death toll to 50.
Three people have been detained in connection with a building fire that killed 50 workers
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Wednesday spoke to his Kuwaiti counterpart Abdullah Ali Al-Yahya about the fire tragedy in Kuwait City in which around 40 Indians are feared to have died.According to reports by Kuwaiti media, the fire ...
KUWAIT CITY -- The death toll from a fire early Wednesday morning in a residential building in the Mangaf area, south of Kuwait City, rose to 49, according to a statement released by the Interior Ministry.
A fire in Kuwait killed 49 people when it ripped through a building housing nearly 200 foreign workers on Wednesday, the government said.The blaze, which broke out in the six-storey building south of Kuwait City at around dawn, also left dozens injured, the health ministry said.Flames engulfed the lower floors as black smoke poured out of the upper-storey windows, unverified images posted on social media showed.The interior ministry revised the death toll up to 49, from 35 issued earlier, after forensic teams scoured the charred building.