Fire in a camp in Qubet, 43 migrant workers killed [Update]

The details of whether or not Nepali workers have arrived have not yet arrived: Nepali Embassy

Jestha 30, 2081

Hom Karki

Fire in a camp in Qubet, 43 migrant workers killed [Update]

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43 people died in a fire at a labor camp in Mangaf, Kubet. 48 people who were injured in the incident are being treated in different hospitals. It is not clear from which country the worker died. Nepalese people also lived in that camp. According to the Nepali Embassy in Kubet, there is no definite information about their condition.

According to the Ministry of Interior, 43 workers have died in a fire in the camp where workers working in the NBTC company in Kubet. 

According to the Nepalese embassy in Kubet, they are investigating whether or not Nepali workers were involved in the fire.

'Embassy team has been assigned to the camp and hospital . Coordination is being done with the police and the management of the company," Sujan Bidari, the first secretary of the Nepali Embassy at the scene of the incident, told Ekantipur, "Nepalese are working in that company. However, it has not been confirmed that the Nepalese did not fall.

Wednesday morning at 4:30 a.m. a cylinder placed in a room at the bottom of the camp exploded and started a fire. About one hundred and sixty workers have been living in the company . In which there are most Indian workers . According to the ministry, 15 injured are being treated at Zahra, Al Adan, Al Farmania, Al Amiri Muwarak Hospital.

The injured were rescued using a crane. Interior Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yusuf Al-Sabah has ordered the arrest of the owner, security guard and company owner of the building that caught fire.

 'The fire is the result of the greed of the company and the building owner', said a statement issued by Minister Sawah after visiting the fire site. Officials from the embassies of Nepal, India and Bangladesh have reached the scene. The police did not disclose the nationality of the workers to them.

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