The Foxconn entrance at the Shenzhen facility.
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Foxconn, which builds many Apple products, told CNET that while it had shut down its Taiyuan factory due to a riot on early Monday, the facility would resume production tomorrow.
The company also said in a statement e-mailed to CNET that there had been no deaths related to the incident.
Foxconn was forced to shut down the northern China factory after a riot broke out at 11 p.m. local time, possibly sparked when a guard struck a worker, and didn't get under control until 3 a.m. The riot involved roughly 2,000 workers out of a total of 79,000 employees at the factory.
Roughly 40 individuals were taken to the hospital and an undisclosed number of individuals were arrested. Foxconn declined to comment on the reason behind the riot.
"The cause of this dispute is under investigation by local authorities and we are working closely with them in this process, but it appears not to have been work-related," the company said.
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