6 #Filipinos Dead in #Saudi House Fire

LocaL Editor

A pregnant woman, her husband and infant daughter were among six Filipinos killed in a weekend fire at their Saudi Arabian residence, the Philippines embassy said on Monday.

The blaze, blamed on an electrical overload, broke out just after 6:00 am Saturday at the apartment where three families lived in central Riyadh.

The father of a second family had just left for work when the building caretaker called to alert him to the blaze. He rushed home to find that his wife, son and daughter were all dead.

Filipinos are one of the major expatriate communities in Saudi Arabia, working in a range of jobs from hospitality to nursing, labor, and management.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team