Kuwait wedding fire 'killed 41 in three minutes'

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.

Speaking the day after the disaster, Jassem al-Mansouri said: “It was a horrific scene with bodies and many shoes stuck to the ground at the only exit; they must have trampled over one another.”