The ex-wife of the groom at a Kuwait wedding party that turned into tragedy when a fierce fire engulfed a tent — killing 43 women and children — has confessed to starting the blaze, newspapers reported yesterday.
Al-Qabas newspaper said the 23-year-old woman had told police she used gasoline to torch the packed wedding tent to avenge her former husband’s “bad treatment” of her before their divorce.
Interior ministry spokesman Colonel Mohammad al-Saber told state-run Kuwait TV that the fire — which engulfed the tent in just minutes — was an act of arson.
“We have identified the perpetrator, who confessed to committing the crime for personal reasons,” Saber said, without giving any further details.
“‘Spurned’ woman unleashed fury,” was the headline in the English-language Kuwait Times, which said the bride escaped injured, but that her mother and sister were killed.
Quoting unnamed security sources, Al-Qabas said the woman’s maid told police she saw her pouring gasoline around the large women-only tent in the town of Jahra before the blaze started on Saturday night.
A total of 43 women and children died and 90 other people were injured in the fire, which destroyed the packed tent in the deadliest civilian disaster in the modern history of the Gulf state.
Sixteen of the dead were buried on Sunday, while forensics officials were still busy trying to establish the identities of the other victims.
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