A worker at the world cup stadium in Brazil has been killed after being electrocuted officials have announced.

The man was 32 years old and he died in an accident at the newly build Pantanal Arena, located in the west of the city Cuiaba where he was installing communications equipment.

This is the first fatality at this particular stadium but a total of eight workers have now died in accidents during the construction of the twelve World Cup arenas. This comes in addition to missed deadlines and uncompleted work.

The Arena Pantanal is one of several stadiums still to be finished with just weeks to go before the World Cup begins, reports the BBC's Wyre Davies in Rio de Janeiro.

At the minute there are still thousands of seats that have to be installed in addition to other vital aspects of construction.

The worker, Muhammad´Ali Maciel Afonso, died after he was hit by an electrical discharge on Thursday, while working on level 20 of the stadium, the regional government said in a statement.

A police investigation is under way into the cause of the accident, it said.

Jerome Valcke, secretary general of football's world governing body Fifa, said on Twitter: "Saddened by the death of worker Muhammad'Ali Maciel Afonso at Arena Pantanal today. My thoughts are with his family and colleagues."

A construction worker died in March after falling 25ft (8m) at the Sao Paulo stadium. In November, two workers were killed at the same stadium when a crane collapsed.

In February, a Portuguese man was hit by a crane part and died while working at the Arena Amazonia, in Manaus.

He became the third person to die in an accident at the north Brazilian stadium where England and Italy will start their World Cup campaign.

Another man died in the Mane Garrincha stadium, in the Brazilian capital, Brasilia, in 2012.

In the preparations for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, two workers died.