Bangladeshis among 11 killed in Saudi fire

Eleven workers from Bangladesh and India have been killed in a fire that ripped through their windowless house in Najran, a southern province in Saudi Arabia.

“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.

Those hurt and killed in the blaze were all from India and Bangladesh, the civil defense said.

The region’s governor, Prince Jluwi bin Abdelaziz bin Musaed, ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the fire incident.

Nine million foreigners work in the kingdom, many of them from South Asia, according to the last official figures released in 2015.

Sources: Arab News and Gulf News