Qatar rectifies and says that the workers killed in the construction of the stadiums were 40

Euskaraz irakurri: Goizean emandako kopurua zuzendu, eta txapelketaren prestaketetan hildakoak 40 izan zirela esan du Qatarrek

A spokesman for the Qatar World Cup He has qualified the words of Hassan Al Thawadi, a senior World Cup official, and has stated that 414 people have died from 2014 to 2020, but that this figure does not only include the workers killed in the construction of the tournament stadiums, which amounts to 40 deaths, but also “other sectors” and that is assigned to “the whole country”.

“General Secretary Hassan Al Thawadi has told Piers Morgan’s ‘Uncensored’ program that there have been 40 work-related deaths on Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy projects. This is documented annually in the public reports of the SC and It covers the 8 stadiums, the 17 non-competition venues and other venues related to the SC arena,” Qatar said in a statement.

According to this source, the figures cited by Al Thawadi, who spoke of “between 400 and 500 deceased migrant workers”, correspond “to national statistics covering the period 2014-2020 for all work-related deaths (414) in the entire country, covering all sectors and nationalities”.

This number is far from the 6,500 that the British newspaper The Guardian documented for a report in early 2021. “Every year the security in these places is improving. I think that in general, the need for a labor reform indicates that it is necessary to do improvements. This is something that we recognized before carrying out the candidacy. The best reforms that have occurred have not been for the World Cup. We have had to do them for our values,” Al Thawadi said.