A massive fire that destroyed a Kuwaiti wedding tent and killed more than 40 women inside was started by the groom’s ex-wife, it emerged today.

The blaze that consumed a wedding tent in Kuwait claimed two more lives, raising the death toll to 43 women and children.

The fire at a wedding tent in Kuwait that killed 41 women and children consumed the structure in an intense blaze lasting just three minutes, the head of the country’s fire brigade said today.