Six people, at least one of whom was a child, suffocated to death after a blaze tore through a house that had been subdivided into multiple residences in Farwaniya, a suburb 15 km (10 miles) south of Kuwait City, and three others died from injuries in hospital, the spokesman said. Nine member of a family of Mian Chunnu city (Khanewal district) burnt alive in Farwaniya area of Kuwait when their villa caught fire due to short circuit. Muhammad Khalid elder brother of ill-fate Muhammad Asif told mediamen," I have received phone calls from their neighbourers and friends that Asif, his wife ,his two sons Umer and Hamza ,two daughters Jaweria and Erij, my mother Nasreen bibi, another brother's wife and a nephew Majid died on the spot while my younger brother Muhammad Tariq is in critical copndition. He told that they were living inKuwait since 2001.He said," we are in contact with foreign office to bring their bodies back to Pakistan for burial.Family sources said that arrangements were being made to airlift the bodies back to Pakistan.
Kuwaiti authiorities did not give details of the victims' nationalities or identities. He said one firefighter had been seriously injured.
Expatriate workers, mostly from India, make up slightly more than two-thirds of Kuwait's 4.3 million population
The ministry, quoted by state news agency KUNA, said all the victims were Pakistanis or Indian. At least five of the injured were in critical condition.
The cause of the fire was not immediately known.
Last week, a blaze at the Gulf state’s central jail killed one inmate and wounded 56 other people, including a fireman.
Expatriate workers, mostly from the Indian subcontinent, make up around 70 percent of oil-rich Kuwait’s 4.3-million population.
