Lives behind the statistics

Mohammad

Shahid Miah

Bangladesh

The heavy rains that lashed Qatar in late September last year were, to many, an inconvenience. To Mohammad Shahid Miah they were a death sentence. The rains seeped into his worker accommodation and came into contact with some exposed electricity cables. When Miah stepped on the wet floor, he was electrocuted and died, his father told the Guardian.

 

Miah had paid a recruitment agent more than £3,500 to secure his job in Qatar in 2017, a vast amount for a family from rural Bangladesh. The debt has now been passed on to his distraught and impoverished parents, who say they have yet to receive any compensation from Miah’s employer or the Qatar government.

 

Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan in Dhaka

Lives behind the statistics

Mohammad Shahid Miah

Bangladesh

The heavy rains that lashed Qatar in late September last year were, to many, an inconvenience. To Mohammad Shahid Miah they were a death sentence. The rains seeped into his worker accommodation and came into contact with some exposed electricity cables. When Miah stepped on the wet floor, he was electrocuted and died, his father told the Guardian.

 

Miah had paid a recruitment agent more than £3,500 to secure his job in Qatar in 2017, a vast amount for a family from rural Bangladesh. The debt has now been passed on to his distraught and impoverished parents, who say they have yet to receive any compensation from Miah’s employer or the Qatar government.

 

Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan in Dhaka