Forty-eight hours after the death of the American reporter Grant Walh at Grand Hamad Hospital following a heart attack, a second death has just been recorded. It is Khalid Al Misslam, a Qatari photographer who was covering the World Cup for the national television channel Al Kass of Qatar, according to the Gulf Times magazine on Monday.
The circumstances of his death have not been revealed.
The American journalist Grant Walh just died of a heart attack last Saturday while commenting on the Argentina/Netherlands clash. He was wearing a rainbow shirt, a symbol of the LGBTQ+ struggle, when he arrived in Qatar. The practice of homosexuality is forbidden in Qatar.