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Kuwaiti security forces gather outside a building which was engulfed by fire, in Kuwait City, on June 12, 2024. 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. At least 11 overseas Filipino workers were affected in a fire that broke out in a residential building in Mangaf, a coastal city south of the Kuwait capital, the Department of Migrant Workers announced on Thursday.
Cacdac instructed MWO-Kuwait to stay in touch with hospital authorities until they can fully ascertain the status of the five unaccounted OFWs. The fire was reported at 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. As of late last night, Kuwait’s Interior Ministry announced that at least 49 people died from the fire with scores injured.
The official Kuwait News Agency quoted Health Minister Ahmed al-Awadhi as saying hospitals had received 56 people injured in the fire in the Mangaf area, which is heavily populated with migrant laborers.
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