An Indian worker died at the construction site of the Al-Bayt 2022 World Cup Stadium after he fell ill, the tournament’s organising committee announced on Sunday.
The worker, 48, died on Wednesday after suffering a cardiac arrest at the stadium’s construction site in the Qatari city of al-Khor, reports Efe.
Qatar’s Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy of the 2022 World Cup announced that it has opened an investigation into the death of the Indian labourer to determine the circumstances of the incident.
The conditions of workers building the Qatar World Cup stadiums have been reported as very poor by several human rights organisations. Reports have also emerged of the deaths of hundreds of workers.
In March, Amnesty International warned against labour exploitation of immigrants in the construction works of the 2022 World Cup stadiums and facilities, and said workers were living in subhuman conditions, without even basic rights.
Qatar has been the prime focus of human rights commissions from across the world.
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Back in April, a human rights professor from Harvard University shared his report urging the FIFA to protect human rights in Qatar or strip the country as host of the foot World Cup 2022 in the country.
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