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MANESAR, India (Reuters) - Indian police were searching on Thursday for 3,000 people they want to detain after one person was killed and scores injured in a riot at a car factory in the north of the country.
Hundreds of police have secured the Maruti Suzuki factory in Manesar, arresting 88 people after property was smashed and parts of the factory set on fire during Wednesday's violence, police said.
Labor unrest at the factory, where the union has accused India's biggest car manufacturer of anti-worker and anti-union activities, cost the company more than $500 million in lost production in 2011.
Wednesday's violence flared after a disciplinary incident against one employee. Company officials say workers began to attack senior management during discussions, while the workers' union said its representatives were attacked first.
"The police have taken charge of the premises," Maruti Suzuki spokesman Puneet Dhawan said. "One body was recovered from the premises. It is charred beyond recognition."
Ei Mochizuki, a Tokyo-based spokesman for Suzuki Motor Corp <7267.T>, which controls the Indian carmaker, said one local employee had died and two Japanese employees had been hospitalized after the unrest.
The factory, which can make 550,000 vehicles a year and accounts for around a third of Maruti's total output, would remain closed on Thursday, the company said.
Shares in the carmaker, which saw its sales fall 11 percent in the fiscal year to March, partly due to the protracted labor strikes, fell as much as 9.4 percent on Thursday.
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Iron rods and other sharp tools lay scattered outside the factory gate on Thursday, next to a burned out security building, as 1,200 police officers secured the site, around 40 km (25 miles) south of New Delhi....
India police hunt 3,000 after deadly riot at car factory - Yahoo! News
