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On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> [don't know the source, but reliable...]
>
> Radhey Shyam Roy, Indian Executive Burned To Death By Fired Workers
>
> BHUBANESHWAR, India — Indian police detained two people after an angry mob
> of fired workers burned to death a senior executive of a steel factory, an
> official said Friday.
>
> After learning they were laid off, about a dozen workers attacked a vehicle
> carrying Radhey Shyam Roy as he was leaving the factory in eastern Orissa
> state on Thursday, dousing the Jeep with gasoline and setting it on fire,
> said police Superintendent Ajay Kumar Sarangi.
> Two other people in the vehicle were allowed to flee but Roy, 59, was
> trapped inside and later died of severe burns, Sarangi said.
> Police were questioning two workers and their formal arrest on murder
> charges was likely, Sarangi told The Associated Press. The steel factory is
> in Bolangir district, nearly 250 miles (400 kilometers) west of
> Bhubaneshwar, the capital of Orissa state.
> Incidents of industrial violence are common in India, where workers often
> target executives in cases of wage disputes and job losses.
> In 2008, scores of dismissed employees of an Italian manufacturing company,
> Graziano Transmissioni India, used iron rods and wooden sticks to beat to
> death the company's local chief executive officer on the outskirts of New
> Delhi.
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