Chinese Factory Workers, Police Clash

Posted on January 23, 2006 11:33 PM | | Comments (0)

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The New York Times
January 23, 2006

BEIJING (AP) -- Workers protesting the sale of a factory in southwestern China clashed for three days with baton-wielding police, according to a factory employee and a news Web site Monday, underscoring the country's growing social tensions.

The conflict at the No. 354 military factory in the southwestern city of Chengdu left some of the workers injured -- one of them in critical condition, according to the Web site.

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