DOHA: The driver who ran over a group of construction workers in Lusail early Thursday killing six (five Nepalese and one Indian) was not a Qatari, a police source in Al Daayeen claimed yesterday.
The source added that the driver was taken into custody and referred to the Public Prosecution. The source gave no details but added that such a tragic accident where so many people were crushed to death was reported for the first time in the area.
According to the Nepalese embassy, a sixth Nepalese worker was in a very serious condition and remained admitted in the trauma intensive care unit of Hamad Medical Corporation.
Five other workers (all Nepalese) suffered minor injuries and were discharged from the hospital. “One of the inured is in a very serious condition and his name is Aatawari Chudhari,” said Second Secretary at the embassy, Hairhar Kanthapeydal. The embassy has asked the workers’ company for documents tomorrow to make arrangements to send the bodies of the five Nepalese home, he added.
The five Nepalese who died were identified as Patwari Chudhari, Asharam Tharu, Bibekanda Jha, Ramachandra Mathu and Arjun Gautam. All of them had been working in Doha for between six months and two years.
“None of them has completed two years of work here,” said Kanthapeydal.
Meanwhile, an Indian embassy source confirmed that the Indian who had died was from Kollam district of Kerala. His employers (company) were processing his papers, the source said, adding that the death toll of Indians, a large expatriate community here, in traffic accidents, was the second highest after deaths from heart attack. The Peninsula
