- John Njau Kibue was a security guard at the quarter-final
- ‘We want answers on the circumstances of his death,’ says sister
A 24-year-old Kenyan, John Njue Kibue, has died while working as a security guard at the World Cup in Qatar, it has been confirmed. Kibue fell from the eighth storey of the Lusail Stadium late at night after Argentina’s quarter-final victory over the Netherlands on Saturday.
The Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, the World Cup organising body, said Kibue had died after three days in intensive care and that an inquest into the circumstances surrounding his fall would be carried out “as a matter of urgency”.
