‘State of shock’: Kuwait fire leaves many families bereft in India’s Kerala
Al Jazeera
Most of the victims in the deadly blaze that engulfed a block housing immigrant workers are from India.
From a father-of-two who planned to leave his job to a 29-year-old due to visit his family in August, two dozen Indians from the southern state of Kerala died in a fire that ripped through a labour-housing facility in Kuwait, leaving their families bereft.
India’s Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday said 40 Indians died in the blaze at a building housing workers in Kuwait’s Mangaf city, which also killed at least nine others, including three Philippine nationals.
Kuwait’s Foreign Minister Abdullah al-Yahya told reporters on Thursday that one person succumbed to injuries, taking the number of deaths to at least 50.
More than 50 other workers were injured, some critically, but their nationalities could not immediately be confirmed by the Kuwaiti government.
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