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A violent altercation occurred at a northern China factory of Foxconn, an Apple contract manufacturer, early on Monday morning. Details remain scarce.
Foxconn spokesman Louis Woo told Reuters that the incident resulted from a fight between workers in different production units at the company's Taiyun factory. Woo said the company was still investigating the cause of the fight and the number of people involved.
Woo later told the Wall Street Journal that the plant would remain closed on Monday.
Other reports, however, characterize the violence as a riot, one possibly involving as many as 2,000 people and, by one account, potentially sparked when a guard struck a worker. Photos posted by a user on the Chinese Internet service Baidu depicted lines of helmet-clad riot police surrounding what appeared to be workers and rooms littered with detritus and glass from broken windows.
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