{"id":3726,"date":"2026-05-16T07:07:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T07:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/?p=3726"},"modified":"2026-05-16T07:07:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T07:07:05","slug":"massive-fire-breaks-out-at-al-qurain-central-market-in-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/2026\/05\/16\/massive-fire-breaks-out-at-al-qurain-central-market-in-kuwait\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive fire breaks out at Al Qurain Central Market in Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A massive fire broke out at Al Qurain Central Market located in the western Abu Futaira industrial area of Kuwait on Friday afternoon.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the incident, firefighting teams from Al Bairaq Fire Station and Al Qurain Fire Station rushed to the location and immediately began rescue operations and efforts to contain the flames.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Preliminary reports indicate that the fire caused extensive material damage inside the market area.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The market complex is known to employ a large number of workers, including many expatriates and members of the Malayali community.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities confirmed that no deaths or injuries have been reported so far despite the scale of the fire.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emergency teams continued cooling operations and safety inspections in the area to prevent the fire from spreading further.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials have launched an investigation to determine the exact cause of the fire and assess the full extent of the damage caused by the incident.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further updates are expected after the completion of the official inquiry and damage assessment.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive fire broke out at Al Qurain Central Market located in the western Abu Futaira industrial area of Kuwait on Friday afternoon. Following the incident, firefighting teams from Al Bairaq Fire Station and Al Qurain Fire Station rushed to the location and immediately began rescue operations and efforts to contain the flames. Preliminary reports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kuwait-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3727,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions\/3727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}