*KUWAIT CITY: Fifteen oil workers, including three from Pakistan, werekilled Sunday in a head-on collision between two buses in southern Kuwait,officials said.*
Seven of those killed were Indian nationals, five were Egyptians and theother three from Pakistan, said Mohammed al-Basri of the state-owned KuwaitOil Company (KOC).
Two Indian citizens — one in critical condition — and a Kuwaiti were alsoinjured in the accident, Basri told AFP.
Fire department spokesman Colonel Khalil al-Amir said the victims wereemployees of Burgan Drilling, a private subcontractor for KOC.
Like the other Arab states of the oil-rich Gulf, Kuwait has drawninternational condemnation for its track record on migrant workers’ rightsand labour conditions. – APP/AFP