KUWAIT CITY // Firefighters in Kuwait are battling a blaze that broke out following an oil spill at a well in the north of the country, the Kuwait Oil Co said Wednesday.
The state-run company announced the spill in a statement carried by the official Kuwait News Agency early in the day.
It said that firefighters were “exerting ongoing efforts” to put out a fire at the site.
Saad Al Azmi, a company spokesman, said workers were trying to control the spill, which happened late Tuesday. He did not specify where the spill took place or anything about its size.
Mr Al Azmi said that the thick gas seen being emitted at the site “is caused by putting out the blaze”.
He did not elaborate, but the news agency said that the environmental public authority has confirmed that the gas contains no hazardous elements.
* Associated Press
