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Ex-wife admits Kuwait wedding arson
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Source: Al Jazeera

The 23-year-old told police she poured petrol around the packed wedding tent and set it on fire to avenge her ex-husband's "bad 'treatment" of her before their divorce, Kuwait's Al-Qabas newspaper said on Monday.

Colonel Mohammad al-Saber, an interior ministry spokesman, said: "We have identified the perpetrator who confessed to committing the crime for personal reasons."

He told Kuwaiti television the fire engulfed the tent in just three minutes.

The bride escaped injured, but her mother and sister were killed.


Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/08/2009817142338945193.html
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