(MENAFN- Arab Times) DOHA June 20 (AFP): A Qatari court on Thursday sentenced five people among them the emirate''s envoy to Belgium to six years in prison over ''negligence'' that caused a deadly shopping mall blaze last year Al-Jazeera reported. All the 19 people killed in the inferno at Doha''s Villagio mall on May 28 2012 were foreigners including 13 children four teachers and two firefighters. Among the children who died were triplets from New Zealand and three Spanish siblings. Investigators had said last year that the fire that broke out next to the unlicensed Gympanzee nursery was caused by an electrical fault.
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