(UTV|COLOMBO) – At least 11 people were killed and four others were wounded in an accident involving two buses transporting labourers on Artel Highway, north of Kuwait City, according to local reports said.
Earlier reports stated that 15 workers were killed in the horrific accident, but the toll was later revised downward to 11, according to Kuwait’s fire service department, KFSD.
Four were trapped in the vehicles following the collision, a KFSD statement carried by the Kuwaiti News Agency, KUNA, revealed.
The Kuwait Oil Company, KOC, has said that the buses were transporting employees of contracting firms that work for the company when the crash occurred near Burgan oil field.
Courtesy: Gulf News
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