#SaudiArabia: 11 Migrant Workers Die in House Fire

Local Editor

Eleven migrant laborers died of asphyxiation in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday in a fire that engulfed the windowless house they shared, Saudi authorities said.

"Firefighters put out a blaze in an old house lacking windows for ventilation. Eleven people died of asphyxiation, and six others were injured" in the southern province of Najran, the civil defense said in a tweet.

The casualties all hailed from India and Bangladesh, it said.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team