KUWAIT – Fifteen expatriate oil workers were killed Sunday when two busescollided in southern Kuwait, officials said.
Among the dead were seven Indian nationals, five Egyptians and threePakistanis, said Mohammed al Basri of the state-owned Kuwait Oil Company(KOC).
An Indian national is fighting for his life, after the head on collision.Another Indian and a Kuwaiti were also injured, Basri told *AFP*.
Fire department spokesman Colonel Khalil al Amir said that the workers wereemployed by Burgan Drilling, a private subcontractor for KOC.
Kuwait’s state news agency said the two buses collided, leading to the highdeath toll, with firemen having to cut some of the injured out of thewreckage.
Earlier this month, At least 17 people have been killed and another 36wounded after a bus carrying illegal immigrants, including Pakistanis, hita lighting pole in eastern Turkey and burst into flames, local mediareported on Friday.
The bus, which crashed late Thursday on the Igdir-Kars highway, wascarrying nationals from Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the state-run*Anadolu* news agency reported. Images in Turkish media showed smoke risingfrom the charred bus with its front smashed and migrants lying on the roadwith bloodied faces.