Kuwait City – A mother and her child were killed after a fire gutted their dilapidated house in the district of Al-Hassawi in Kuwait.
The civil defence firefighting units rescued seven other women and evacuated them from the four-story house.
Five of them suffered multiple burns while two others were taken to Ibn Sina Hospital in critical condition.
An initial inquiry revealed that the fire first started in the ground floor, where pieces of furniture were stored, before spreading to other floors.
The mother and her child, who are from Ivory Coast, burned to death before the firefighters could rescue them.