By NBC News staff and wire reportsRIYADH -- Celebratory gunfire at a wedding party in eastern Saudi Arabia Tuesday night brought down an electric cable, killing 23 people, a local civil defense official said.
"At the wedding, the cable fell on a metal door and the 23 people who died were all electrocuted," Eastern Province official Abdullah Khashman said by phone.
Follow @NBCNewsWorld (http://twitter.com/NBCNewsWorld) However, the al-Jazeera news organization cited local media reports (http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/10/2012103192352586941.html) that some of the casualties died as a result of a fire caused by the downed cable. The local reports said the dead were women and children.
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