An Indian Air Force aircraft has returned with the corpses of forty-five laborers who died in a fire in Kuwait.
In Mangaf city, a residential structure housing 176 Indian workers caught fire on Wednesday.
According to Kuwaiti officials, the fire claimed the lives of fifty persons, 45 of whom were from India and three from the Philippines. There are two unidentified bodies.
Numerous employees, primarily of Indian descent, have also sustained injuries in the incident.
Foreign workers make approximately two thirds of Kuwait’s population, and the nation heavily depends on migrant labor, particularly in the domestic and construction industries.
Human rights organizations have frequently expressed concern over their living circumstances.
Following the tragedy, Indian Minister Kirti Vardhan Singh traveled to Kuwait and stated that DNA testing had been done to identify the victims.
23 workers from the state of Kerala, 7 from Tamil Nadu, 3 from Andhra Pradesh, 2 from Odisha, and 1 from each of Punjab, Karnataka, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Jharkhand, and Haryana are among the workers whose deaths have been confirmed.
Mr Singh claimed that the Indian government had arranged for a special Air Force flight to retrieve the deceased.
The bodies of the workers from southern Indian states were turned over to authorities when the plane touched down on Friday morning in Kochi, Kerala, before continuing on to Delhi.
