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2 killed, 10 injured in refinery fire

Kuwait City: 2 people were killed and 10 others injured in a fire that broke out  at a gas liquefaction unit in a  refinery in Kuwait on Friday. The fire erupted at Mina al-Ahmadi refinery, 40km south of Kuwait City during a maintenance work.

The Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) informed that two expat workers of Asian nationality were found dead at the site. Five of the injured were in critical condition.

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Mina al-Ahmadi is the largest of Kuwait’s three refineries and handles some 466,000 barrels of oil per day. Earlier in last October a fire had caused a number of light injuries in the refinery.

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