Two dead, 118 injured in toy factory brawl
A brawl at a toy factory in China has ended with the deaths of two people and a further 60 hospitalised after a dispute flared between workers of different ethnic backgrounds in the Muslim Xinjiang region.More than 400 police were called to break up the fight involving hundreds of people at the factory in Shaoguan, in the southern province of Guangdong, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
A total of 118 people were injured in the fight. It was not clear what triggered the dispute, but the two dead were both members of China’s Uighur minority, the South China Morning Post reported, adding that 81 of the injured were also Uighurs.