Two women were killed after a fire ripped through a house in Kuwait, firefighting authorities have said.
The blaze had erupted in the house in the Al Adan area in the Mubarak Al Kabeer governorate, south of the capital Kuwait City.
The Kuwait Fire Service said firefighting brigades had dealt with the incident and brought it under control. They also rescued six people and evacuated them to safety. The cause of the blaze was not immediately clear.
In another incident, firefighters were able to control a blaze that had broken out at the artificial intelligence laboratory at Al Shaddadiya University in Al Shaddadiya area in Al Farwaniya governorate, also south of Kuwait City.
No casualties resulted from that fire, the cause of which was not immediately clear.
In June, a blaze swept across a residential building in Mangaf area, south of Kuwait City, leaving 50 people dead in one of the worst such incidents in Kuwait. The fatalities included 45 Indians and three Filipinos.
