| New regulations enforced for safety of wedding halls |
| Saturday, 12 September 2009 11:35 | |||
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The Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor plans to put in place new regulations to ensure the safety and security of wedding halls to avoid incidents such as the Jahra wedding tent blaze in which scores of people lost their lives and several others were injured, reports Al-Watan Arabic daily quoting reliable ministry sources. The sources announced to begin with the Ministry will launch an inspection campaign of all wedding halls in all areas of the country. The Ministry is expected to release a detailed report on every wedding hall in terms of the area of the hall, crowd handling capacity, number of entrances and exits in case of emergency, preventive and safety and security regulations. The sources added a committee named ‘Emergency Committee’ comprising representatives from the Society Development Department, the Kuwait Municipality, the Kuwait Fire Services Directorate and the Ministry of Public Works is expected to begin work over the next few days. The death toll as a result of a recent wedding tent fire in Kuwait has risen to 49, Kuwait’s Ministry of Interior said Wednesday. The General Department of Criminal Evidence has revealed that two more injured victims of the deadly fire in the city of Jahra, west of Kuwait City, have passed away since the incident which occurred on Aug 15, according to Interior Ministry spokesperson Colonel Mohammed Al-Sabr. There were a total of 80 people injured in the fire, the victims of which were all women and children.
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