RIYADH: Three Canadians, a Pakistani and a Nigerian were among those killed in a fire that engulfed parts of a residential compound in Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich east, a Saudi official said.
Col Ali bin Saad al-Qahtani, a civil defence spokesman for the kingdom’s Eastern Province, provided the update about the blaze in comments carried by the official Saudi Press Agency on Monday.
He said a total of 10 people died and 259 were injured in the blaze. The civil defence directorate previously said 11 people were killed.—AP
Published in Dawn, September 1st, 2015
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