{"id":1036,"date":"2017-10-16T09:17:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T09:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/saudi-carpentry-workshop-fire-kills-10\/"},"modified":"2017-10-16T09:17:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T09:17:33","slug":"saudi-carpentry-workshop-fire-kills-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/saudi-carpentry-workshop-fire-kills-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi carpentry workshop fire kills 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madaresharghi..com\">madaresharghi<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"lide\">Ten people have died in Saudi Arabia as a fire engulfed a carpentry workshop in the capital Riyadh, the Persian Gulf kingdom&#8217;s civil defense said.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"72\">\n<p>\n\t&#8220;The Riyadh civil defense put out a fire that broke out at a carpentry workshop in the Badr district of Riyadh,&#8221; the Saudi civil defense said in post on its official Twitter account on Sunday, presstv.ir wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAccording to the report, the overnight fire also left three people injured.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe civil defense added that the victims&#8217; identities are still unknown and no information was given on the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIt also posted photos of what appeared to be an enormous lumber yard engulfed in flames. Firefighters were shown working through the night to extinguish the fire.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSaudi firefighters try to put out the fire the engulfed a carpentry workshop in the capital, Riyadh, overnight Sunday (October 15, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe blaze comes nearly three months after 11 migrant workers suffocated as a fire engulfed a windowless house they shared in Saudi Arabia\u2019s southern province of Najran.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe July blaze also left six workers injured. The civil defense said back then that the victims were Indian and Bangladeshi nationals.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMillions of poor Asians are working in the Persian Gulf states. Human rights groups say many of the workers suffer exploitation and abuses, including non-payment of wages.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAccording to latest official figures released in 2015, there are nine million foreigners currently working in Saudi Arabia, many of them South Asians.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRights groups have urged the Persian Gulf kingdom and other Arab states to end the \u2018kafala\u2019 sponsorship system, which forces foreign workers to seek their employer&#8217;s consent to change jobs or leave the country, a measure rights groups say leaves workers open to exploitation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>madaresharghi Ten people have died in Saudi Arabia as a fire engulfed a carpentry workshop in the capital Riyadh, the Persian Gulf kingdom&#8217;s civil defense said. &#8220;The Riyadh civil defense put out a fire that broke out at a carpentry workshop in the Badr district of Riyadh,&#8221; the Saudi civil defense said in post on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[639],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Saudi carpentry workshop fire kills 10 - madaresharghi | An Analytical Look at Middle Eastern Developments<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/saudi-carpentry-workshop-fire-kills-10\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Saudi carpentry workshop fire kills 10 - madaresharghi | An Analytical Look at Middle Eastern Developments\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"madaresharghi Ten people have died in Saudi Arabia as a fire engulfed a carpentry workshop in the capital Riyadh, the Persian Gulf kingdom&#8217;s civil defense said. &#8220;The Riyadh civil defense put out a fire that broke out at a carpentry workshop in the Badr district of Riyadh,&#8221; 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