Nepali workers riot over colleague’s death


Demonstrating concern: Workers holding up a sign stating their terms during a strike at their quarters. A parked van (right) that was tipped over during the protest.

JOHOR BARU: Some 1,500 Nepalese have refused to go to work for more than 36 hours at a mechanical component manufacturing plant and even flung things out of their living quarters in protest following the death of a colleague.

They threw out pieces of metal and glass, electronic products, chairs and boots from their four-storey hostel, smashing the glass windows of the guard’s post, while some turned a parked van to its side.

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