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Labour demands justice for dead Qatar builder
Call for probe into British man’s death on stadium construction site

LABOUR demanded an investigation yesterday into the death of a British worker on a Qatar World Cup stadium site.

The 40-year-old man has not been named, nor have any details of the incident been released, with World Cup organisers saying only that he “lost his life working” on Thursday at the Khalifa International Stadium.

Labour’s shadow sports minister Dr Rosena Allin-Khan demanded an invesitgation into the man’s death and action to keep all World Cup construction workers safe.

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