{"id":64796,"date":"2024-06-09T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/09\/migrant-workers-fear-for-their-safety-after-deaths-on-diego-garcia"},"modified":"2024-06-09T17:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T08:00:12","slug":"migrant-workers-fear-for-their-safety-after-deaths-on-diego-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64796","title":{"rendered":"Migrant workers \u2018fear for their safety\u2019 after deaths on Diego Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workers for US defence contractor KBR concerned after colleagues die on island with no hospital-grade health facility<\/p>\n<p>Migrant workers employed by the US defence contractor KBR on the British-owned island of Diego Garcia have expressed concerns for their safety after the recent deaths of two of their colleagues, the <em>Observer<\/em> has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent death on Diego Garcia, which is host to a strategic American military base in the British Indian Ocean Territory, came on 5 January. Relemay Fabula Gan, 41, from the Philippines, died after suffering a collapsed lung following several weeks of illness after a Covid diagnosis, her family said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/09\/migrant-workers-fear-for-their-safety-after-deaths-on-diego-garcia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers for US defence contractor KBR concerned after colleagues die on island with no hospital-grade health facilityMigrant workers employed by the US defence contractor KBR on the British-owned island of Diego Garcia have expressed concerns for their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":986,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[753,319,1879,491,61,45,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chagos-islands","category-foreign-policy","category-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office","category-migration","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/986"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64797,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64796\/revisions\/64797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}