EX_WIFE KILLED 43 IN FIRE AT SECOND WIFE CELEBRATE |
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Posted: 17 August 2009 at 7:00pm |
Ex-wife started Kuwait wedding tent fire that killed 43
A spurned ex-wife started a fire at the second marriage of her former husband which killed 43 women and children, according to police sources in Kuwait. By Richard Spencer in Dubai Published: 1:51PM BST 17 Aug 2009 Previous1 of 3 ImagesNext Disaster was worsened by the stampede which took place after the fire took hold Photo: AP Fire took minutes to consume the wedding tent Photo: AP The authorities have not released the name of the bride or groom, or said whether the bride survived. Photo: AFP/Getty Images Maids saw the woman, 23, pouring petrol over the marquee in which the women's celebration was taking place in a town west of Kuwait City. She was later arrested and made an immediate confession saying she was upset over her "bad treatment" from the groom, who had divorced her. Colonel Mohamad al-Saber, spokesman for the interior ministry, said: "We have identified the perpetrator, who confessed to committing the crime for personal reasons." The fire, on Saturday evening, took hold at immense speed, spreading through the flammable upholstered seating and consuming the wedding tent in three minutes. "There were a couple of hundred women in the tent," Abdullah al-Zafeeri, whose mother and sister are among the injured, told local reporters. "I heard the women screaming. Some children died in the arms of their mothers." Many of the women and children, who were segregated from the men in separate parties as is conventional for Gulf wedding ceremonies, died after being caught in a stampede for the marquee's only exit. Rescue services were impeded by the fact that the tent had been erected in a narrow space between residential complexes. Police were forced to conduct DNA tests on the remains in order to try to identify them. Photographs of the scene showed charred wreckage of tables and chairs, and rows of shoes burned into the ground. The names of the dead, and of the bride and groom's families, have not been released in accordance with local sensitivities. But local observers said the couple were both members of the extended al-Anzi family, who come from a traditional area of western Kuwait where many Bedouin desert tribes have settled in recent decades. The bride was said to survived the blaze, since she was still being prepared with make-up and henna and had not yet arrived at the banquet. But her mother and sister were believed to be among the dead. The 23-year-old woman detained over the fire was also said to be an al-Anzi. The woman has yet to be brought before a court, and her fate is unclear. The death penalty is in force in Kuwait, including for women, although the emirate can offer leniency in the case of mental impairment. "It all depends on her lawyers and what she tells the court," one source said. "But I think she is bound to get a big sentence, maybe even the death sentence, as the toll is so big. Too many people died." Http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/...killed43.html |
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La hawla wa la quwwata illa billahil aliyyil azeem. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un. Edited by abuayisha - 17 August 2009 at 7:24pm |
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Asked about her motives for starting the fire, the unidentified 23-year-old woman said that she had wanted to take revenge on her parents-in-law, whom she accused of destroying her marriage. She added that she had argued continually with them, saying they wanted to "burn" her heart by making her ex-husband marry another woman. Asked by the interviewing officers whether she had experienced problems with her husband, she said these problems had increased because of his family, adding that he had begun to bea http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=MTIyNTg5MjgzNQ== |
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Akhe Abdullah
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Salams Abuayisha. A woman scorned,could that be the missing part in marry 2,3or4 but one is best if ye but knew.May Allah give the deceased the best of His Jannah(Ameen
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