Name | Al Jahra |
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Native name | جهراء |
Pushpin map | Kuwait |
Pushpin mapsize | 300 |
Coordinates region | KW |
Subdivision type | Country |
Subdivision name | |
Subdivision type1 | Governorate |
Subdivision name1 | Al Jahra Governorate |
Subdivision type2 | Districts |
Subdivision name2 | Al Jahra District |
Population as of | 2009 |
Population total | 24281 |
Timezone | AST |
Utc offset | +3 |
Footnotes | }} |
Al Jahra () is a city located 32 kilometres (20 miles) north-west of Kuwait City in Kuwait . Al Jahra is the capital of the Al Jahra Governorate of Kuwait as well as the surrounding Al Jahra District which is agriculturally based. Encyclopædia Britannica recorded the population in 1980 as 67,311. However, since the Gulf War, the population has appeared to have declined, with a population of 14,658 people recorded in 1995 and an estimate of 24,281 as of 2009.
The onslaught that followed the orders resulted in 60 miles of wreckage of destroyed Iraqi tanks, ammunitions trucks, civilian vehicles and ambulances and mutilated soldiers, with over 2000 military and civilian vehicles annihilated. Bob Dogrin of the Los Angeles Times described the carnage,
Dogrin later reported that a US Army intelligence officer, Major Bob Nugent who was involved in the search for Iraqi documents amongst the wrecked convoy remarked, "Even in Vietnam, I didn't see anything like this". The highway has since become notoriously known as the "Highway of Death".
Although the Iraqi forces were subdued, they destroyed a number of buildings outside Kuwait City too, such as a satellite antenna a short distance east of Highway 80 between the Al-Mutala Ridge and the Iraqi border at Abdaly.
Some of Kuwait's most noted families are from Al Jahra including Al Oraifan, Al Qahs, Al Ayar, Al Fowzan, Al Hajraf, Al Saeed, Al Kooh, Al Habishi, and Al Debbah.
Then on August 15, 2009 a fire broke out at a wedding in Al Jahra. At least 49 people were killed and about 80 others wounded when the grooms' 23-year-old first wife, sought revenge for her husband's second marriage, poured petrol on a tent where women and children were celebrating and set it on fire. Within three minutes the whole tent, which had only one exit and did not meet fire safety regulations, was engulfed in flames, trapping many inside. It was the deadliest civilian disaster in Kuwait in the last 40 years.
Khaima Mall in Al Jahra also contains a notable fish market.
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