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Kuwait Building Fire Live Updates: IAF aircraft carrying mortal remains of victims lands in Kerala | Perfecct Woman Magazine

Kuwait Building Fire Live Updates: An Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft carrying the bodies of 46 Indians, who died in Kuwait building fire, has arrived at Cochin International Airport. The mortal remains of the victims will be taken to their native places including those from Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. The flight will then leave for Delhi with mortal remains of victims from other states. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Cabinet colleagues and senior government officials from the Department of Non-Resident Keralites Affairs or NORKA are present at the airport for official procedures and to pay their last respects.

What has initial probe revealed? Indian embassy officials met the Kuwait fire incident survivors and investigators on Thursday and glaring lapses have emerged from the initial probe. Sources told The Indian Express there were around two dozen gas cylinders on the ground floor of the seven-storey building, inflammable materials like paper, cardboard and plastic as partitions to separate the workers in the cramped rooms and locked doors to the rooftop that did not allow workers to escape to the rooftop.

What’s the death toll ? According to Kuwaiti officials, 46 of the 49 dead have been identified as Indians and three from Philippines. About 50 others were injured in the Wednesday night blast in the building that housed 196 migrant workers in Mangaf, south of Kuwait City.

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