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		</div><p>The death toll from a fire at a major oil refinery in Kuwait has been raised to four after two critically injured workers died of their wounds, the Kuwait National Petroleum Company said in a statement.</p>
<p>The fire, which erupted on January 14 during maintenance work at the Mina al-Ahmadi oil refinery, initially killed two Asian workers, whose bodies were found on site, and had left five others in critical condition.</p>
<p>The state-owned company said that two of the critically injured workers have since died in the hospital while receiving treatment, raising the death toll to four.</p>
<p>The company’s top executive issued a statement in the days after the blaze saying such incidents, while “very painful for us,” are “very likely in a complex industry”.</p>
<p>Kuwait’s Oil Minister Mohammed al-Fares and other top executives of the state-owned oil company visited the refinery immediately after the fire.</p>
<p>They were seen fist-bumping members of the fire brigade and standing in front of the site of the blast for photos that were shared by the Kuwait National Petroleum Company’s Twitter account.</p>
<p>It was the second fire in a month at the site.</p>
<p>A smaller fire erupted last week at separate petrochemical line run by the company, though no injuries were reported in that blaze.</p>
<p>The Mina al-Ahmadi refinery was built to handle 25,000 barrels of oil a day to supply Kuwait’s domestic market primarily with gasoline and diesel.</p>
<p>The facility recently underwent an expansion to reduce its emissions and boost capacity to 346,000 barrels a day.</p>
<p>Kuwait, a nation home to 4.1 million people, has the world’s sixth-largest known oil reserves.</p>
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