MANILA – Three Filipinos in Kuwait were reportedly hurt from a fire that hit a residential building.
The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) said that among the three injured, two were being treated in the intensive care unit of a hospital.
Three other Filipinos safe got out of the building but five more remain unaccounted.
Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) administrator Arnell Ignacio, meanwhile, has instructed the welfare office in Kuwait to attend to the immediate needs of the victims.
“Nakatutok ang mga kawani ng OWWA sa Kuwait, sa kalagayan ng tatlong Pilipinong nasa ospital upang agad na maibigay ang kinakailangang tulong,” Ignacio said in a statement.
He added: “Nakausap na rin ng OWWA ang kaanak ng tatlong Pinoy sa Pilipinas upang tiyakin na mabibibigay ang kanilang mga pangangailangan sa panahong ito.”
According to reports, 49 were killed in the fire that broke out Wednesday dawn in a six-storey building housing nearly 200 foreign workers, in a coastal city south of Kuwait City called Mangaf.
Flames engulfed the lower floors as black smoke poured out of the upper-storey windows, unverified images posted on social media showed.
Oil-rich Kuwait has large numbers of foreign workers, many of them from South and Southeast Asia, and mostly working in construction or service industries./PN
