DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Hundreds of workers in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, have been abandoned by their employer and left to live in squalor and filth, a source told Gulf News.
As many as 700 employees of Saqr Engineering and Contracting, some of whom say they have not been paid for eight months, have been abandoned in two labor camps in an industrial area of Dubai with backed up toilets and without fresh water or electrical power, the newspaper said.
The chairman of the company has "fled the United Arab Emirate, leaving me and these workers in trouble," said a silent partner, who requested anonymity.
The workers are from Nepal, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and the Philippines.
The chairman took off, allegedly, at the beginning of Ramadan, a Muslim holiday that includes a month of fasting during daylight hours. UPI
