Apple supplier Foxconn shutters China plant after 2,000 workers riot

25 Sep 2012

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Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group, the world's largest contract electronics maker, today closed its Taiyuan plant in northern China after about 2,000 workers staged a riot at a company dormitory.

According to several Chinese reports, about 2,000 workers at Taiyuan plant located in Shanxi provincial capital were involved in a brawl on Sunday night at 11 pm at a privately managed dormitory near the factory leaving forty people injured.

Around 5,000 policemen were dispatched to the scene, but were able to bring the fight under control after 10 hours at 9 am today.

Although it was not clear what triggered the fight among workers, but an initial investigation by company officials revealed that workers from Shandong province clashed with those from Henan province.

In a posting on the China's microblogging site Sina Weibo, user "Jo-Liang" said that a few security guards beat a worker almost to death.

Photos posted on Sina Weibo showed a burned vehicle and police with riot helmets, shields and clubs inside the factory grounds.

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