Thursday, 3 October 2019

Revealed: hundreds of migrant workers dying of heat stress in Qatar each year

Revealed: hundreds of migrant workers dying of heat stress in Qatar each year

Migrant labourers are being worked to death in searing temperatures in Qatar, with hundreds estimated to be dying from heat stress every year, a Guardian investigation can reveal. This summer, hundreds of thousands of migrant workers toiled in temperatures of up to 45C for up to 10 hours a day as Qatar’s construction boom hit its peak ahead of the Fifa World Cup 2022.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/oct/02/revealed-hundreds-of-migrant-workers-dying-of-heat-stress-in-qatar-each-year?source=Snapzu

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