Death, violence at World Cup sites

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Qatar World Cup: 400 Nepalese die on nation's building sites since bid won

Calls grow for Fifa to take decisive action as human-rights group prepares to release report on mounting death toll

More than 400 Nepalese migrant workers have died on Qatar's building sites as the Gulf state prepares to host the World Cup in 2022, a report will reveal this week.

The grim statistic comes from the Pravasi Nepali Co-ordination Committee, a respected human rights organisation which compiles lists of the dead using official sources in Doha. It will pile new pressure on the Qatari authorities – and on football's world governing body, Fifa – to curb a mounting death toll that some are warning could hit 4,000 by the time the 2022 finals take place.

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http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/feb/16/qatar-world-cup-400-deaths-nepalese


Brazil's World Cup courts disaster as delays, protests and deaths mount
An attack on the president's office was just the latest alarming episode in the runup to June's tournament

Another week, another storm of teargas and rubber bullets at a World Cup host city in Brazil. This time, the clashes were in the capital, Brasília, where 15,000 protesters from the Landless Workers Movement marched from the Mané Garrincha football stadium to the Palácio do Planalto state office of the president, Dilma Rousseff.

Riot police using batons and teargas fought off several attempts to invade the building. The demonstrators threw stones and tore down railings which they used as weapons. In the fierce fighting, 12 protesters and 30 police officers were injured.

Rousseff was not in her office at the time, but this latest explosion of unrest is yet another headache for the president in what is supposed to be one of the most triumphant, feelgood years in the nation's history.

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/16/brazil-world-cup-disaster-delays-protests-deaths