The United Nations is calling on Qatar to investigate the true scale of the deaths of migrants working on projects related to the 2022 World Cup, hours after a Qatari official admitted that several hundred people had died during the preparations...

Hassan Al-Thawadi, the secretary general of the Supreme Committee for delivery and legacy, responsible for the World Cup, told the television show Piers Morgan Uncensored on Tuesday that the number of migrant workers who have died working on such projects is "between 400 and 500."

This was a figure Qatari representatives have cited previously...

Liz Throssell, deputy spokesperson at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) refused to comment on the numbers the Qatari official gave, but said the Gulf country should launch a formal probe into migrant deaths.