Chinese villagers attack polluting factories
200 descend on manufacturing facilities, sewage treatment plant
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Updated: 11:04 p.m. ET April 11, 2006
HONG KONG - About 200 Chinese villagers, angry over pollution of their
water supply, attacked three factories and a sewage treatment plant, a
Hong Kong newspaper said on Wednesday.
The villagers in the eastern province of Fujian, some armed with iron
bars, smashed windows and appliances on Saturday at the sewage plant,
two leather factories and a South Korean-invested plastics factory, the
South China Morning Post said.
"They rushed into the office building, kitchen, dormitory and grocery
store, smashed all the glass, air conditioners and other breakable
things and took anything valuable, including kitchen items," the
paper quoted the owner of the Xinde Leather Co. in Quanzhou as saying.
Three cars were also destroyed, he said.
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