Abdul Wali Skandar Khan: The First Documented Death on a NEOM Construction Site

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Abdul Wali Skandar Khan was 25 years old. He was a civil engineer. He was Pakistani. He had two children. On 28 December 2023, he reported to work at a healthcare centre under construction within the NEOM zone in Tabuk province, Saudi Arabia. During the installation of a metal gate, the structure fell on him. He died at the site.

His death was not reported by NEOM. It was not reported by his employer. It was not reported by Saudi authorities. It was not investigated by any party with the legal obligation or institutional capacity to determine what happened, why, and who was responsible. It was documented, eleven months later, by ALQST — the London-based Saudi human rights organisation — which identified it as the first formally documented death of a migrant worker on a NEOM construction site.

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Abdul Wali Skandar Khan: The First Documented Death on a NEOM Construction Site