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Death toll rises to 49 in Kuwait building fire: interior ministry

AFP | Kuwait City, Kuwait

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

Forty-nine people have died in a major blaze in a residential building housing foreign workers in Kuwait, the interior ministry said on Wednesday, updating an earlier toll.

"The number of deaths as a result of the fire in the workers' building in the Mangaf area has risen to 49," the ministry said.

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