Dubai/Kuwait City, India's Mission in Kuwait is obtaining full information from the concerned Kuwaiti authorities on the tragic fire incident that broke out in a building in the southern city of Mangaf, in which 49 foreign workers, including about 40 Indians, and 50 others died. were injured. Here officials have started investigating the Gulf country's worst fire.
The fire broke out early on Wednesday in the kitchen of a seven-storey building housing 195 migrant workers in Mangaf, Ahmadi province.
The incident sparked calls for action against real estate landlords and company owners who violate the law by housing large numbers of foreign workers in extremely unsafe conditions in order to cut costs." in Kuwait's Mangaf area. In an unfortunate and tragic fire incident today at a labor housing facility, around 40 Indians died and more than 50 were injured.The embassy is seeking complete information from the relevant Kuwaiti authorities and the company. We express our deepest condolences to the bereaved families, the Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement on Wednesday night in New Delhi.
The fire broke out just after 4:00 a.m. while most of the building's 196 all-male residents were sleeping. According to Interior Ministry and fire department officials, this resulted in huge dense clouds of black smoke, which suffocated most of the victims.
The injured people are currently admitted to five government hospitals in Kuwait (Adan, Jaber, Farwaniya, Mubarak Al Kabir and Zahra hospitals) and are receiving proper medical care and attention.The Indian mission said that according to hospital authorities, most of the patients admitted are stable. Following the incident, India's Ambassador to Kuwait Adarsh Swaika immediately visited the incident site and hospitals to ascertain the welfare of the Indian nationals.
The Embassy continues to coordinate with the local authorities and provide all possible assistance to assist the Indian nationals injured in this unfortunate incident. The Embassy is receiving full cooperation from the Kuwaiti authorities.
On the instructions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Minister of State Kirti Vardhan Singh is immediately traveling to Kuwait to ensure early repatriation of the bodies as well as provide medical assistance to the injured."Our Embassy in Kuwait remains in touch with the local authorities to provide relief to the affected people. The Embassy has set up a helpline +965-65505246 (Whatsapp and regular calls) to contact family members. Regular updates “Helplines are being provided,” the statement said.
Sheikh Mishaal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait, expressed deep sorrow and sympathy for the families of the victims. He ordered an immediate investigation into the cause of the fire and holding those responsible accountable.Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmed Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah also sent messages of condolence to relatives of the victims. India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar posted that he was "deeply saddened by this news." are shocked" and expressed their "deepest condolences to the families of those who tragically lost their lives". The Foreign Ministry statement said he spoke by phone with his Kuwaiti counterpart Abdullah al-Yahya, who "expressed condolences on behalf of the leadership, government and people of Kuwait".
Sheikh Fahd al-Yousef al-Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Interior, ordered the arrest of the building's Kuwaiti landlord and the building's Egyptian guard and warned authorities not to release them without his permission.
The minister told reporters that the fire was a disaster, adding that from Thursday municipality teams would start inspecting all buildings and they would have the authority to remove any violations without warning.He said officials will also start studying the issue of overcrowding of migrant workers in buildings and failure to follow safety conditions from Thursday.
The public prosecution has launched an investigation into the fire to uncover the circumstances behind the incident and what could have caused this deadly inferno, it said on Thursday, praising the statewide response to the disaster.
There has been no official statement on how the fire broke out or what caused it. Some local media reported that it could be a gas leak from the ground floor of the building. Kuwait Fire Department's head of investigation, Colonel Seyed al-Moussawi, said that the team investigating the cause of the fire found that there was a gas leak in the form of a partition between the apartments and rooms. An inflammable substance was used, causing huge black clouds of smoke.Many victims suffocated while trying to run down the stairs because they were filled with smoke, he said, adding that the victims could not get to the roof because the door was locked.
The fire broke out early on Wednesday in the kitchen of a seven-storey building housing 195 migrant workers in Mangaf, Ahmadi province.
The incident sparked calls for action against real estate landlords and company owners who violate the law by housing large numbers of foreign workers in extremely unsafe conditions in order to cut costs." in Kuwait's Mangaf area. In an unfortunate and tragic fire incident today at a labor housing facility, around 40 Indians died and more than 50 were injured.The embassy is seeking complete information from the relevant Kuwaiti authorities and the company. We express our deepest condolences to the bereaved families, the Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement on Wednesday night in New Delhi.
The fire broke out just after 4:00 a.m. while most of the building's 196 all-male residents were sleeping. According to Interior Ministry and fire department officials, this resulted in huge dense clouds of black smoke, which suffocated most of the victims.
The injured people are currently admitted to five government hospitals in Kuwait (Adan, Jaber, Farwaniya, Mubarak Al Kabir and Zahra hospitals) and are receiving proper medical care and attention.The Indian mission said that according to hospital authorities, most of the patients admitted are stable. Following the incident, India's Ambassador to Kuwait Adarsh Swaika immediately visited the incident site and hospitals to ascertain the welfare of the Indian nationals.
The Embassy continues to coordinate with the local authorities and provide all possible assistance to assist the Indian nationals injured in this unfortunate incident. The Embassy is receiving full cooperation from the Kuwaiti authorities.
On the instructions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Minister of State Kirti Vardhan Singh is immediately traveling to Kuwait to ensure early repatriation of the bodies as well as provide medical assistance to the injured."Our Embassy in Kuwait remains in touch with the local authorities to provide relief to the affected people. The Embassy has set up a helpline +965-65505246 (Whatsapp and regular calls) to contact family members. Regular updates “Helplines are being provided,” the statement said.
Sheikh Mishaal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait, expressed deep sorrow and sympathy for the families of the victims. He ordered an immediate investigation into the cause of the fire and holding those responsible accountable.Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmed Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah also sent messages of condolence to relatives of the victims. India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar posted that he was "deeply saddened by this news." are shocked" and expressed their "deepest condolences to the families of those who tragically lost their lives". The Foreign Ministry statement said he spoke by phone with his Kuwaiti counterpart Abdullah al-Yahya, who "expressed condolences on behalf of the leadership, government and people of Kuwait".
Sheikh Fahd al-Yousef al-Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Interior, ordered the arrest of the building's Kuwaiti landlord and the building's Egyptian guard and warned authorities not to release them without his permission.
The minister told reporters that the fire was a disaster, adding that from Thursday municipality teams would start inspecting all buildings and they would have the authority to remove any violations without warning.He said officials will also start studying the issue of overcrowding of migrant workers in buildings and failure to follow safety conditions from Thursday.
The public prosecution has launched an investigation into the fire to uncover the circumstances behind the incident and what could have caused this deadly inferno, it said on Thursday, praising the statewide response to the disaster.
There has been no official statement on how the fire broke out or what caused it. Some local media reported that it could be a gas leak from the ground floor of the building. Kuwait Fire Department's head of investigation, Colonel Seyed al-Moussawi, said that the team investigating the cause of the fire found that there was a gas leak in the form of a partition between the apartments and rooms. An inflammable substance was used, causing huge black clouds of smoke.Many victims suffocated while trying to run down the stairs because they were filled with smoke, he said, adding that the victims could not get to the roof because the door was locked.
