“The estimate is 400, between 400 and 500. I don’t have the exact number,” al-Thawadi said in an interview with Piers Morgan for the British TV channel “Talk TV”. Morgan had asked about the realistic number of migrant workers who died working for the World Cup.
According to previous official information, three people died on the stadium construction sites. The organizing committee had not yet given any figures on the total number of guest workers who died in connection with the World Cup. A sensational report by the British “Guardian” in early 2021 spoke of more than 6,500 dead workers from five Asian countries on the emirate’s construction sites in the past ten years. Qatar had always rejected these figures.
In the conversation, Hassan al-Thawadi again referred to the reforms that have improved the conditions for workers on the World Cup construction sites in the emirate in recent years. European associations are campaigning for a compensation fund for guest workers in Qatar and for the establishment of a guest worker center in Doha.
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