Many people died when a fire broke out during a celebration of a wedding in Kuwait. The wedding celebration was done inside a tent where women and children are present. The fire started Saturday evening. 36 people died in this tragedy while 60 women and children were injured. The cause of the fire has not yet been confirmed but investigation has been started.

Four teams of fire-fighters were dispatched to the scene, as well as a large number of ambulances needed to take the injured to hospital. Officials said the authorities had had difficulty evacuating the injured because of the large numbers of anxious relatives at the scene.

Kuwait’s state news agency Kuna had earlier quoted the director-general of the country’s Fire General Directorate, Maj-Gen Jassem al-Mansouri, as saying that 41 bodies had been recovered from the tent.

Wedding celebrations in the conservative Gulf state are held separately for men and women just like in Saudi Arabia.

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