Sixteen Bangladeshi workers killed in Riyadh factory fire
A fire at a factory in the Saudi capital Riyadh killed 16 Bangladeshi migrant workers, The Hindu and The National reported on Monday. Neither report gives a cause for the fire.
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Gulf migrant worker deaths
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A factory fire in the Saudi capital Riyadh killed 16 Bangladeshi migrant workers, The Hindu and The National reported on Monday. Neither outlet gives a cause, and the topic now turns on what investigators find.
Gulf states including Saudi Arabia rely heavily on migrant labour from South Asia, with Bangladesh among the largest sending countries. This topic follows fatal accidents and other deaths among those workers, and the questions they raise for employers and Saudi authorities on one side and workers and their home countries on the other.