Qatar: At least 19 foreigners, including 13 children, were killed in a fire that ripped through an upmarket shopping mall in Qatar yesterday, the country's interior ministry said. Four of the dead children were Spanish, diplomatic sources in Madrid said.
It was not immediately clear what caused the blaze at the Villagio Mall in Doha’s west end. Qatar’s interior ministry has said an investigation is under way.
“There don’t seem to have been any fire alarms or sprinklers at the mall,” a relative of a two-year-old child who died in the fire said from Qatar’s Hamad hospital.
Smoke was seen billowing from the mall, which was evacuated. Seventeen people were wounded, including four children. – (Reuters)