Fresh details have emerged on four Kenyan guards who perished in a grisly road accident on Wednesday, September 1.
The guards were part of a team that worked for one of the largest security companies in the Gulf State. International news outlets detailed that the said company had been at a crossroads with the Gulf. This is after grave penalties were issued to the company for breaking a section of the labor laws.
Further, the four guards had recently staged protests demonstrating against their working conditions and salaries.
The protests led to the security company increasing the guards' salaries to Ksh30,000 as well as Ksh9,000 on food allowance.
However, the four guards met their demise after a bus they boarded after the end of their working shift rammed into another car on the evening of Wednesday, September 1.
Shortly after the accident, firefighters rushed to the scene in a bid to save the guards' lives but the four were pronounced dead on arrival at a nearby hospital.
"We are saddened by the news of this loss, the victims' families have been contacted," the Kenyan Embassy in Qatar noted in a statement.
The bodies are set to be repatriated to Kenya for burial.
Recently, Labour Cabinet Secretary, Simon Chelugui, stated that about 93 Kenyans had died in the Middle East in the past three years.
He also added that the deaths occurred mostly in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
He noted that the majority of the deaths were natural.
“A majority of the cases are reported to have been caused by natural death such cardiac arrest, Covid-19, cancer, childbirth, respiratory complication, tuberculosis and meningitis. Other causes include accidents and suicide," he stated.
