Arrest of the Owner of the Mankaf Building: Kuwaiti Interior Minister: "Only I Will Release You!"

The Kuwaiti Interior Minister, Sheikh Fahad Al-Yusuf, announced the detention of the owner of the Mankaf fire building, stating: "You are responsible for them, and their guilt is on your shoulders... He is being held in the criminal evidence department, and no one will release him except Fahad Al-Yusuf." The Interior Minister indicated that "what happened this morning in Mankaf is a real disaster, with 41 deaths reported so far," noting that "the incident was the result of the greed and avarice of the company owners and building proprietors." A fire broke out this morning in a building in the Mankaf area, south of Kuwait.