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Foxconn
recruitment point is pictured in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong
province, on
February 22, 2013 (AFP/File)
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BEIJING —
Three Foxconn workers have committed suicide at a factory in China in the past
three weeks, state media and a labour rights group said Saturday.
All three
jumped to their deaths at a plant in the central city of Zhengzhou run by the
Taiwanese electronics giant.
A
30-year-old married man killed himself on Tuesday following the similar deaths
of a 23-year-old woman on April 27 and a 24-year-old man three days earlier,
the Xinhua news agency reported.
"The
reasons for these building jumpings are unclear," the New York-based China
Labor Watch rights group said in a statement.
Foxconn,
which assembles products for Apple, Sony and Nokia, has come under the
spotlight after suicides and labour unrest at its Chinese plants since 2010.
In 2010, at
least 13 Foxconn employees in China died in apparent suicides, which activists
blamed on tough working conditions, prompting calls for better treatment of
staff.
Although
Foxconn denied the accusations, it raised wages by nearly 70 percent at its
China plants in 2010.
Foxconn is
the world's largest maker of computer components and employs up to 1.1 million
workers in China.
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