: Qatar's top World Cup official said Tuesday that more than 400 migrant workers died in labour accidents in the country in the years leading up to the tournament.
The organising committee said his response referred to “national statistics covering the period of 2014-2020 for all work-related fatalities” in Qatar “covering all sectors and nationalities”.Migrant workers make up more than 2.5 million of Qatar's 2.9 million population and labour conditions have been strongly criticised -- particularly on the huge construction projects that have transformed the tiny Gulf state in the past decade.
Authorities have insisted that only 37 workers on World Cup projects have died -- and only three in work-related accidents -- and Thawadi repeated this figure in the interview.His comments brought new condemnation from rights groups however. “Qatar’s extreme heat and gruelling working conditions are likely to have contributed to hundreds of these deaths, but without full investigations the true scale of lives lost can never be known.”It has dismantled its 'kafala' labour system which gave employers powerful rights over whether workers could leave their jobs or even the country.
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