Saudi Arabia – 170-workers in a Saudi company – facing death in the holy city of Mecca are still facing it for another three months.
Khaled Aba al-Khail, the spokesman for the Ministry of Labor, said that the ministry has already suspended the companys services because of its failure to pay the workers overdue wages, as well as its failure to provide workers with occupational health and safety requirements, including adequate housing and insurance. 170 workers to work to address the lack of subsistence they are suffering and going through at the present time.
It is noteworthy that this incident dates back to 20-12-2016. The suffering of the 170 workers who live in the middle of the desert, located about 35 kilometres from the nearest residential area, between Jeddah and Mecca, has been living a life that is not paid for. For some time now, they have no place to live, where they harbor snakes and insects in this arid desert where their company leaves them.