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    I just love what I find sometime. This isn't h5n1 linked, unless you think folks dying overnite in a crowded work camp is suspicous Workers being moved after deaths in ?haunted cabins?
    Published: Sunday, 16 April, 2006, 12:27 PM Doha Time

    By Arvind Nair

    THE management of the company whose workers rioted in Ras Laffan on Thursday has agreed to relocate staff from the cabins where people had reportedly been dying mysteriously, according to the Nepali ambassador.

    Ambassador Shyamananda Suman told Gulf Times that he had met management representatives of the company and they had "agreed in principle" to move workers from "that particular area" to somewhere else.

    A source close to the workers said "it is an inevitability" because cabins in that particular area had already been destroyed in the riots.

    The company has a number of camps at different areas at Ras Laffan, housing "more than 10,000" workers. According to sources, people have been dying mysteriously over the last two to three years in one particular area.

    The sources said the workers, belonging to various Asian and Middle East countries, had been unanimous in alleging that some of the cabins were "haunted" and "the deaths were caused by ghosts."

    According to the ambassador, the company has accepted the fact that the camps "are inauspicious" and would be shifted elsewhere.

    The ambassador suggested to the company that the place could be used for building some recreational facilities like volleyball court or playground for the workers.

    Suman, however, said that he wasn?t allowed by the police to visit the camps.

    Except for these mysterious deaths, he noted that "it is a good company where workers get paid on time".

    The workers of all nationalities rioted on Thursday morning when they learnt that two more colleagues, said to be a Nepali and an Egyptian, had died overnight. Subsequently, they prevented the ambulance from removing the bodies. They destroyed vehicles and burnt cabins to vent their pent-up anger.

    The ambassador said he was surprised by the sudden turn of events. "Nepalis by nature are peaceful people and they don?t usually become aggressive. I suspect someone might have instigated them."

    He quoted the police as saying that the matter was being investigated. They had taken more than 2,000 workers into custody but released around 1,500 yesterday after initial investigation.

    The police are investigating the matter and if anyone is found guilty, they could be deported. The ambassador supported this and said, "if there are trouble-makers, they should not be encouraged."

    He added that "things are improving by the hour" and the administration was acting "quickly". The authorities "are co-operating but the law has to take its own course."

    The company wasn?t available for comment yesterday.

    Ghost or otherwise, the authorities should investigate and find out the cause of the recent deaths, the ambassador said. The deaths provoked the agitation and "I hope the authorities will bring out the truth sooner than later" about the cause of deaths, the ambassador said.

    According to sources close to workers, around 50 people had died over the last two-three years in a particular area of the camp.

    The sources said the management had been routinely promising that they would look into the mysterious deaths. They added that the workers had been mostly satisfied with the company, except for overcrowded accommodation and the unexplained deaths of colleagues.

    Meanwhile, workers who have not been taken into custody are working "normally". According to them, the management, alarmed at the unity of the entire workforce irrespective of the nationality, has already split them into various camps.
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