{"id":1772545,"date":"2022-12-12T12:46:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T17:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1772545"},"modified":"2022-12-12T13:04:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T18:04:39","slug":"second-journalist-dies-covering-world-cup-in-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/second-journalist-dies-covering-world-cup-in-qatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Journalist Dies Covering World Cup in Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsecond-journalist-dies-covering-world-cup-in-qatar%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1772545&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Second-Journalist-Dies-While-Covering-World-Cup-in-Qata.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Another sports journalist has died in Qatar while covering the 2022 FIFA World Cup, according to reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fox Sports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/football\/world-cup\/second-journalist-suddenly-dies-covering-fifa-world-cup\/news-story\/a4bfce95801ebba2f1d3b9e66178c4cb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> that photojournalist Khalid al-Misslam \u201cdied suddenly\u201d over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAl- Misslam, a Qatari, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/country-singer-37-dies-in-his-sleep-just-hours-after-wedding\/\">died<\/a> suddenly while covering the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022,\u201d The Gulf Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe in Allah\u2019s mercy and forgiveness for him and send our deepest condolences to his family,\u201d the report added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are all Allah\u2019s, and to Him we return,\u201d the Qatari outlet said of the deceased journalist.<\/p>\n<p>The circumstances of the journalist\u2019s death have not yet been revealed by the Qatari government or the local media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second journalist to die this year at the event.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A second journalist dies in Qatar whilst covering the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WorldCup?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WorldCup<\/a>. Photojournalist Khalid al-Misslam from Qatari news channel Al Kass TV passed away on Saturday; a day before that, US  soccer journalist Grant Wahl, 48, collapsed at the match between Argentina and the Netherlands. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yy7tXdQl8B\">pic.twitter.com\/yy7tXdQl8B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Monica Grayley (@MonicaGrayley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MonicaGrayley\/status\/1602053058489454595?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>RELATED:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/former-football-player-jake-hescock-25-dies-of-cardiac-arrest-while-jogging\/\"> Former Football Player Jake Hescock, 25, Dies of Cardiac Arrest While Jogging<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Brietbart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/12\/12\/second-reporter-dies-while-covering-the-world-cup-in-qatar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Al-Misslam\u2019s death came only hours after long-time soccer reporter Grant Wahl, 49, died after collapsing at the Lusail Stadium while covering the quarter-final game between Argentina and the Netherlands.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Wahl caused a stir this year by wearing an LGBTQ-themed shirt during the games in the infamously anti-gay country. And that act caused Wahl\u2019s brother, who is gay, to charge that the journalist was murdered by Qatari operatives.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>However, Wahl had taken himself to the World Cup\u2019s medical facilities complaining of exhaustion and other ailments only a few days before he died in the stands during Friday\u2019s game.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Other reports also noted Wahl had been forced to take several days off from covering the games due to illness.<\/p>\n<p>Wahl is survived by his wife, Dr. Celine Gounder, a CBS News contributor and a clinical associate professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another sports journalist has died in Qatar while covering the 2022 FIFA World Cup, according to reports. Fox Sports reported that photojournalist Khalid al-Misslam \u201cdied suddenly\u201d over the weekend. \u201cAl-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1772548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,6607,7476,7475,6794,7823,3819],"class_list":["post-1772545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-covering","tag-cup","tag-dies","tag-journalist","tag-qatar","tag-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1772548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}