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HANOI: Five Vietnamese workers and 16 others, believed to be Chinese nationals, reportedly died on Wednesday night during anti-China riots in Vietnam.
A doctor at Ha Tinh General Hospital, which is located in central Vietnam’s Ha Tinh province, said about a hundred people were sent to the hospital on Wednesday night, and many were Chinese.
Separately, one Chinese worker was reported killed in rioting at a Taiwanese steel plant in Ha Tinh province.
"One Chinese worker is dead. We are trying to identify the body," a local policeman told AFP on condition of anonymity.
According to Taiwanese media, the plant is owned by Formosa Plastics Group, Taiwan's biggest investor in Vietnam.
Protesters have set more than a dozen factories on fire in south Vietnam, in anger over China’s deployment of an oil rig in contested waters.
The violence has forced some factories in the southeast province of Binh Duong to temporarily suspend operations.
According to police in Binh Duong, 460 companies reported some damage to their plants.
- CNA/AFP/xq
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15-05-2014, 03:00 PM
21 killed in factory riots in Vietnam - incduding 16 Chinese - Nationals
