Wedding fire in Kuwait kills at least 41 guests

By: rose2009

Şabhān : Kuwait | 3 months ago

2 0

Images

Wedding fire in Kuwait kills at least 41 guests

Posted by: rose2009

KUWAIT CITY: A fire at a wedding tent Saturday has killed at least 41 women ...

See All Images

Wedding fire in Kuwait kills at least 41 guests

KUWAIT CITY: A fire at a wedding tent Saturday has killed at least 41 women and children guests and injured 76 others, authorities said.

The official Kuwait News Agency quotes the fire department chief, Brig. Gen. Jassem al-Mansouri, as saying 41 bodies have been recovered from the scene in Jahra, a tribal area west of Kuwait City. KUNA said 76 people have been hospitalized with burns.

Interior Ministry spokesman Col. Mohammed al-Saber said the cause of the fire has not been determined and authorities were having difficulty evacuating the injured because of relatives and onlookers flooding the scene.

He said Kuwait Army ambulances helped transport the injured to the country's hospitals.

Wedding parties in this conservative oil-rich country are held separately for men and women. Children attend the women's party

Reach
Credibility

More News From: Şabhān : Kuwait

News Stories

King orders airlifting of Kuwait tent fire injured

News Source: Arab News | 3 months ago

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah on Tuesday ordered the airlifting to the Kingdom of 12 Saudi women and children injured in Saturday's Kuwait wedding tent fire. Health Minister Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah said the king had ordered the...
US warns Americans in Kuwait to be vigilant

News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader | 3 months ago

Embassy is warning Americans in Kuwait to be vigilant against possible terror attacks after the arrest of people suspected of planning to attack a U.S. military camp there. In a warden message on the embassy's Web site Tuesday, the State Department...
'Scorned ex-wife' started Kuwait wedding inferno

News Source: The independent | 3 months ago

The fire which roared through a tent at a Kuwaiti wedding reception on Saturday, killing 43 women and children, was deliberately started by the ex-wife of the bridegroom, Kuwaiti newspapers claimed yesterday. They reported that the "woman scorned"...
Ex-wife architect of Kuwaiti wedding arson

News Source: Press TV | 3 months ago

The 23-year-old woman said that she chose to torch the packed wedding tent to avenge her ex-husband's ill-treatment towards her, the local Al-Qabas newspaper reported on Monday. She claimed that she had been constantly abused by her former spouse...
Ex-wife consumed with burning anger

News Source: Kuwait Times | 3 months ago

The woman arrested in connection with the Jahra wedding tent fire, which killed 42 people and injured dozens more, some critically, has confessed to starting the blaze. The woman, the ex-wife of the bridegroom, made her confession during police...
Kuwait budget surplus shrinks ...

News Source: dailymail | 3 months ago

Oil-rich Kuwait's budget surplus shrank by more than two-thirds to less than 10 billion dollars in the fiscal year ended March 31 despite record income, official figures showed on Monday. The Gulf state's surplus dropped to 9.6 billion dollars from...