Thursday, November 17, 2016

World Cup stadium accused of breaching air quality rules (The Associated Press)

FILE In this Monday, Oct. 3, 2016 file photo workers are busy at the soccer stadium, which is under construction on Krestovsky Island, in St. Petersburg, Russia. A Russian official says a North Korean man has died while working on a stadium for the 2018 World Cup. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, file)

A St. Petersburg stadium which will host a 2018 World Cup semifinal has been accused of breaking Russian rules on air quality. The construction site for the 69,000-seat arena in the city had levels of formaldehyde and ammonia in the air above permissible standards when measured in October, according to a report from a St. Petersburg state health inspection agency. The company responsible for overseeing the construction, Metrostroy, did not dispute Fontanka's allegations, but blamed any air quality violations on a previous contractor.


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