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  1. Uprising

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    *24 deaths, all women and children. 37 injured.



    Celebratory gunfire at Saudi wedding cuts cable, 23 electrocuted

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    RIYADH (Reuters) - Celebratory gunfire at a wedding party in eastern Saudi Arabia on Tuesday night brought down an electric cable, killing 23 people, a local civil defense official said.

    "At the wedding, the cable fell on a metal door and the 23 people who died were all electrocuted," Eastern Province official Abdullah Khashman said by phone.

    A photograph of the aftermath of the accident, published on local newspapers' websites showed a large courtyard strewn with fallen chairs and a pole in the middle supporting cables carrying lightbulbs.

    All those killed were from the same tribe, Khashman said. Thirty others were injured in the incident near Abqaiq, a center of the Saudi energy industry.

    Saudi Arabia banned the shooting of firearms at weddings, a popular tradition in tribal areas of the conservative Islamic kingdom, last month.

    Eastern Province governor Prince Mohammed bin Fahd ordered an investigation into the incident, the official Saudi Press Agency reported.

    http://news.yahoo.com/celebratory-gunfire-saudi-wedding-cuts-cable-23-electrocuted-091141411.html




    EDIT: Here's an ARAB NEWS article covering it

    Saudi authorities launched an investigation yesterday into a fire tragedy at a wedding party in Abqaiq that left at least 24 people dead and 37 injured.
    Prince Muhammad bin Fahd, governor of the Eastern Province, ordered the investigation. He visited grieving relatives at Hijrah Jadeedah, 30 km from Abqaiq, an energy industrial center.

    The deadly blaze occurred late Tuesday when a live electrical cable fell on a metal door. The metal door served as the only entrance and exit to an open courtyard. The cable also set ablaze a women-only marquee. Gathered in the courtyard in a tent area were women and children to celebrate the wedding, according to Maj. Gen. Abdullah Alkoshiman, director of Civil Defense in the Eastern Province.

    The cable electrified the door, and some wedding guests were electrocuted when they touched it as they attempted to flee the fire, said Alkoshiman.
    He said celebratory gunfire knocked the cable down. Discharging firearms at weddings was outlawed last month, although shooting firearms is common at weddings in tribal areas.
    The Civil Defense official said 33 injured wedding guests were treated and released from Aramco Hospital in Dhahran. Four remain hospitalized.

    “Most of the victims were women, though men and children also reportedly died,” said Alkoshiman.
    The courtyard yesterday remained as it was Tuesday night with plastic chairs overturned, debris strewn across carpets and a lone wheelchair standing amid the rubble. A pole supporting strings of light bulbs remained standing. Outside the walls was a scorched vehicle parked. The metal door, through which guests attempted to flee, remained open.

    One Eastern Province official said the tent area in the courtyard lacked any safety measures or multiple exits. Civil Defense officials have warned private wedding party hosts and wedding hall managers to ensure their facilities have enough exits to avoid panic and overcrowding in the event of an emergency.

    While visiting the injured and the relatives of victims, Prince Muhammad conveyed to them the condolences of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah; Crown Prince Salman, deputy premier and minister of defense; and Interior Minister Prince Ahmad.
    http://arabnews.com/24-dead-37-injured-wedding-ep

    From another article, it says it was Women and children who died....since Men were not allowed in the same tent area.
     
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  2. Blurr#7

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    Is that current? If so it's shocking news.
     
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  3. Relentless

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    Hopefully this doesn't spark up a debate and go to D&D
     
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  4. Uprising

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    edit:....wait a minute....

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  5. Mr. Brightside

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    I was all fired up after the Rockets win. This is a bit sobering.
     
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  6. Nice Rollin

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    Shouldnt have gotten all amped up about the wedding
     
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  7. Blurr#7

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    Yeah they got too wired.
     
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  8. Dei

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    The place was burning down and the door at the exit is electrocuting? You just know God really wants you to die.
     
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  9. Sajan

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    JJ Watt wrecking weddings in Saudi.
     
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  10. The Hunted

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    27 deaths. All women and children. Horrible story. Sorry no puns. RIP.
     
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  11. napalm06

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    It's usually a good omen when sparks fly at weddings.
     
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    But on a real note: totally insane story - a true tragedy. What a freak accident and horrible turn of events? Think about the families, expecting to have a wonderful wedding day. RIP..
     
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    Not to get too D&D on this, but it's not exactly a freak accident. They were firing guns at a freakin' wedding. Not too much of a stretch to think that something bad is bound to happen.
     
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    Weeks ago I somewhere read that Celebratory Gunfire is responsible for hundreds or thousands of deaths per year, pretty crazy. People don't realize how dangerous this is.
     
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  15. Mr. Brightside

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    I generally save celebratory gunfire for New Years and Houston sports championships. We haven't had much of the latter but New Years is once a year!
     
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  16. Yonkers

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    Usually people get fried at weddings and then pop off. Here they popped off and then got fried.
     
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    the roof,
    the roof,
    the roof is on fire
     
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    There must be some way to get people to start using blanks.
     
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  20. Uprising

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    I saw that on aljazeera. Crazy big explosion radius from just a fuel truck wreck. Local news is saying it was a result from a truck wreck and the fuel from the tanker leaked into a nearby building causing the explosion.

    Almost looks too big IMO. Like there was something more than just the fuel. But. Gasoline is a crazy substance when ignited. And truck is intact so not like it was laced....or filled with some other explosive like the khobar towers terrorist attack.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxrQtVv8WzU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
     
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