KATHMANDU, Nepal–A total of 765 Nepali migrant workers have died in Saudi Arabia in the last 33 months, according to Nepal´s embassy in Saudi Arabia. During a press meet organized by the embassy in Kathmandu on Tuesday, Uday Raj Pandey, Nepal´s ambassador to Saudi Arabia informed it has registered 765 death reports of Nepali workers in the gulf country between mid-June 2011 and mid-March 2014.
The embassy also facilitated in settlement of the compensation worth Rs 16.81 million (652,000 Saudi Riyal) in case of death and injury during the period. It also rescued 948 Nepali women workers from Saudi Arabia and sent them back to Nepal besides settling 1,728 complaints related to the Nepali workers during this period.
According to embassy, most of the women rescued from the gulf countries were under the age of 30. The embassy also helped in freeing 13,227 Nepali workers from the different Saudi jails. Seven thousand other workers were helped to correct their legal status during the amnesty period.
