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1 Oct 2013

Author:
Robert Booth, Guardian (UK)

Qatar World Cup 2022: 70 Nepalese workers die on building sites

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Seventy Nepalese builders working in Qatar in the runup to the 2022 football World Cup have died on construction sites since the start of 2012. Fifteen have died this year, according to a death toll announced by Nepal government representatives in Doha...The death toll was released at a joint press conference held by the governments of Nepal and Qatar, at which they denied Guardian reports about brutal working conditions, long hours, lack of food and pay and squalid living quarters facing Nepalese workers...

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