KUWAIT CITY — More than 35 people were killed and dozens injured after a fire broke out at dawn in a building housing nearly 200 foreign workers in Kuwait, officials said on Wednesday.
Forty-three people were injured, the health ministry said, in the blaze in the Mangaf area south of Kuwait City which is heavily populated with migrant laborers.'Unfortunately, we received a report of a fire at... exactly 6 a.m. in the Mangaf area,' Major General Eid Al-Owaihan, head of the interior ministry's General Department of Criminal Evidence, said at the site.'As for the deaths in the building behind me, the number has exceeded 35 so far.
The nationalities of the victims have not been announced but the Indian ambassador, when contacted by Agence France-Presse, said he was at the hospital visiting survivors.India's Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar posted on X that he was 'deeply shocked by the news' and offered 'deepest condolences to the families of those who tragically lost their lives.
Than 35 Dead Dozens Injured In Kuwait Building Fire
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