In north-western Saudi Arabia, three members of one family perished in a fire.
The Saudi civil defence reported late Friday that four other people were injured in the house fire in Haql governorate in Tabuk province.
It added that its personnel had extinguished the fire, whose cause is being investigated.
The dead were the family’s head, his wife and one of their children due to suffocation from inhalation of smoke, Saudi news portal Akhbar24 reported.
Four other members of the family are being treated at a local hospital, it added. There was no word about their health condition.
In July, four children died while sleeping after a fire had erupted in the family house in Al Ahsa governorate in eastern Saudi Arabia.
The fire was reportedly sparked by an electrical short circuit on the ground floor, and soon spread to the second floor where the children were sleeping.
In May, authorities in the Saudi port city of Jeddah closed down a famous market, citing violations of safety standards, after Al Sawarikh Souq had seen two fires in less than two weeks.
Fire fighters extinguished a blaze at the market on May 12, saying there were no casualties. The cause of the fire, which gutted an unspecified number of shops, was not given.
Another fire broke out at the market on May 21.
In 1980, the souq was set up, containing 12,000 shops, but was temporarily closed during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Sawarikh is believed to be the largest popular market in Saudi Arabia. It occupies an area of about 1 million square metres south of Jeddah, employing more than 20,000 people.
