More than 35 dead, dozens injured in Kuwait building fire
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Kuwait City: More than 35 people were killed and dozens injured in a building fire in an area heavily populated with foreign workers in Kuwait, the in...
Kuwait City: More than 35 people were killed and dozens injured in a building fire in an area heavily populated with foreign workers in Kuwait, the interior ministry said on Wednesday.
Forty-three people were injured, the health ministry said, after the blaze broke out in a residential building south of Kuwait City at dawn.
"Unfortunately, we received a report of a fire at... exactly 6:00 am (0300 GMT) in the Mangaf area," Major General Eid Al-Owaihan, director of the interior ministry's General Department of Criminal Evidence, said during a visit to the site.
"As for the deaths in the building behind me, the number has exceeded 35 so far."