Migrant worker dies at World Cup stadium

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A information defender died aft suffering a autumn astatine a World Cup stadium successful Qatar, tourney organisers person confirmed.

The Supreme Committee said that John Njau Kibue fell astatine Lusail Stadium.

He was taken to the infirmary and enactment successful intensive attraction but aboriginal died, the organisers said successful a statement.

The information unit astatine stadiums is mostly made up of migrant workers, peculiarly from Kenya and different African nations. The Supreme Committee did not specify Kibue's nationality.

His household was informed and the organisers “are investigating the circumstances starring to the autumn arsenic a substance of urgency", the committee said.

There was nary lucifer astatine Lusail Stadium astatine the time. The venue volition big the last connected Monday (AEDT) betwixt Argentina and France.

Since being named arsenic big of this year's World Cup, Qatar has travel nether aggravated scrutiny implicit conditions for much than 2 cardinal migrants who enactment successful the state successful everything from operation jobs to work industries.

Rights groups accidental workers look unsafe conditions astatine work, including utmost vigor that has caused deaths, arsenic good arsenic exploitation by employers, contempt reforms instituted by Qatar.

Qatari officials accidental stronger regulations implicit enactment conditions person been imposed nether the reforms.

They accidental 3 workers died successful workplace accidents connected to the operation of caller stadiums for the World Cup implicit the past decade, on with 37 different stadium workers who died extracurricular the workplace during that time.

They reason that mishap rates astatine the stadiums are comparable to others astir the world.

Last week, FIFA confirmed the decease of different migrant worker astatine the edifice utilized by Saudi Arabia during the radical stages.

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