Apple provider plant close to Chennai to remain shut this week after protests: Report

Apple provider Foxconn’s plant close to Chennai in southern India will stay shut this week following protests, authorities sources advised Reuters on Tuesday. This would possibly damage the manufacturing of smartphones popping out of Foxconn India unit.

Foxconn additionally makes smartphones for Xiaomi India.

Five days of vacation have been declared on the plant, the Superintendent of Police in Kancheepuram stated, following protests in opposition to meals poisoning at a unit.

Scores of staff of Foxconn Technology India Pvt Ltd staged a protest on the Chennai-Bengaluru freeway after roughly 150 workers have been hospitalised for meals poisoning on the manufacturing unit of iPhone-maker. According to Reuters information company, the police have detained scores of individuals for blocking highways on Sunday.

According to the Chennai police, meals poisoning sparked protests by Foxconn manufacturing unit staff and their kinfolk, who blocked a key Chennai-Bengaluru freeway for a number of hours.

“There was an outbreak of acute diarrhoeal disease reported among the Foxconn employees,” the assertion from the Thiruvallur district administration stated. It stated 256 staff have been handled as out-patients and 159 have been hospitalised, of whom 155 have already been discharged.

“Nearly 70 women and 22 men have been detained since Saturday for blocking the highway,” the information company reported.

This story has been printed from a wire company feed with out modifications to the textual content. Only the headline has been modified.

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