Qatar is investigating the death of a migrant employee who allegedly died while performing maintenance work at a compound that served as an educational base for Saudi Arabia’s World Cup team.
Nasser al-Khater, head of the Qatar World Cup organizing committee, expressed his condolences to the worker’s family.
“At the moment, the investigation is still ongoing and what happened and how it happened. And obviously, this is something we are very unhappy about,” al-Khater said.
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The employee, a Filipino who repaired lighting fixtures at the Sealine Beach Beach hotel, a villa complex, reported U. S. sports website. U. S. The Athletic. an education base for the Saudi team before its elimination in the organizational stage.
Qatar has come under scrutiny for the plight of migrant staff who have worked as a component of the country’s grand World Cup construction campaign, adding $200 billion in stadiums, metro lines and other infrastructure.
Last week, a senior Qatar World Cup official, Hassan al Thawadi, estimated the number of employee deaths in the tournament structure at “between 400 and 500,” a figure significantly higher than any previous proposal through Doha. The Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, of which al Thawadi is secretary-general, later said it was referring to work-related death figures from 2014 to 2020 across the country, not particularly for the World Cup.
Qatari officials had said in the past that there were 3 deaths from similar work on the structure of the stadiums for the tournament, as well as another 37 deaths of the stadium structure staff that was not similar to their work. Rights teams said statistics were incomplete and said Qatar did not count off-site deaths from structures still caused by operating situations such as excessive summer heat.
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Al Khater, chief executive of Qatar 2022, said the deaths of structural employees in Qatar were proportional to those in other countries.
“We see that Qatar is like any country in the world that has deaths in the structure industry,” he said. “Unfortunately, other people haven’t been there to put that in context. “