according to Kuwait’s Ministry of Interior. Video circulating on social media and geolocated by CNN showed the moment the blaze engulfed the six-story building in the Mafreg area of the city.

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 ...

Image The building that was engulfed by fire in June in Kuwait City.Credit...Yasser Al-Zayyat/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images But that response stopped short of addressing the structural ...

The blaze, which broke out in the six-storey building south of Kuwait City at around dawn, also left dozens of people injured, the health ministry said. Flames engulfed the lower floors as black ...

The death toll from a fire that broke out in a residential building south of Kuwait City has risen to 49. The building housed foreign workers, a common practice in Kuwait and other Gulf states.

The reports said scores of workers were living in the building in the southern city of Mangaf, without giving their nationality. Kuwait, like other Persian Gulf countries, has a large community of ...

Kuwait building fire: 'Deeply shocked' Jaishankar expresses condolences, assures assistance S Jaishankar expresses shock over fire in Kuwait City with 40+ deaths and 50+ hospitalized. Indian ...

Indian Minister S Jaishankar expressed shock over the Kuwait City fire, which claimed 40 lives. The fire broke out in a building housing workers in Mangaf, southern Kuwait. Deputy Prime Minister ...

Kuwaiti security forces gather at the building that was engulfed by fire in Kuwait City, on June 12, 2024. - Yasser Al-Zayyat/AFP/Getty Images Photos of the aftermath show a blackened ground floor ...

A fire killed 49 people in Kuwait 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 ...