Bosses of Dubai Expo 2020 admit five workers died during construction

Terra, The Sustainability Pavilion, during a media tour at the Dubai World Expo site in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. Delayed a year over the coronavirus pandemic, Dubai’s Expo 2020 opens this Friday. It will put this city-state all-in on its bet of billions of dollars that the world’s fair will boost its economy. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Organisers of Dubai’s Expo 2020 have acknowledged that five workers were killed on site during construction of the massive world’s fair.

Expo had previously said the 200,000 labourers who built the site worked 240 million hours, but had not offered any overall statistics on worker fatalities, injuries or coronavirus infections.