At least 11 people were killed and 219 injured in Saudi Arabia Sunday when a fire broke out at a residential complex housing employees of oil giant Saudi Aramco, authorities said.
The fire started in the basement of a tower in the eastern city of Khobar, the kingdom's civil defence said on Twitter.
It added that several of the injured were in a "critical condition" and that the casualties were from "various nationalities," without giving details.
In this image released by the Saudi Interior Ministry’s General Directorate of Civil Defense, smoke billows from a residential complex in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2015. A fire broke out at the residential complex used by the state oil giant Saudi Aramco.