More than 35 people were killed in a building fire in an area heavily populated with foreign workers in Kuwait, the interior ministry said on Wednesday.
More than 30 people were also injured, a hospital official told Interior Minister Sheikh Fahd Al-Yousef as he visited victims, according to footage posted by the Al-Jarida newspaper.
State-run news agency KUNA said the blaze broke out early on Wednesday in the southern Mangaf district.
The fire had been brought under control and authorities were combing the area for evidence as to the cause of the blaze, KUNA reported, quoting Major General Eid Al-Oweihan, head of forensic evidence at the interior ministry.
Kuwait, a nation with some 4.2 million people that's slightly smaller than the US state of New Jersey, has the world's sixth-largest known oil reserves.
A fire at an oil refinery in 2022 killed four people.
