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“Worker brawl closes Foxconn

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HONG KONG -- A large-scale incident involving some 2,000 Foxconn Technology Group factory

workers has forced the closure of one of the tech supplier's plants in China, the company

confirmed Monday. The company described the incident as a "personal dispute between

several employees" that escalated to include thousands of people. Some 40 people were

taken to the hospital. According to the statement from Foxconn, it took 5,000 local

police to gain control of the situation by 3 a.m., some four hours after the dispute began. Foxconn employs 79,000 workers at the facility. Production at the plant has been

halted, but Foxconn said in a second statement that the factory will resume activity on

Tuesday.

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