Groom’s ex-wife set wedding fire

Blaze in Kuwait has killed 43 women and children

The ex-wife of a man getting married in Kuwait has confessed to police that she used gasoline to set a fire at his wedding party that has claimed the lives of 43 women and children, Al-Qabas, a Kuwaiti newspaper, reports. The woman, alleged to have started the fire Saturday night in a female-only tent, is said to have told police that she wished to avenge her ex-husband’s “bad treatment” of her before they were divorced.

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