1 killed, 90 injured in clash at India's Maruti Suzuki plant: reports

NEW DELHI. July 19. KAZINFORM One person was killed and around 90 others, including three Japanese executives, were injured in labor strife at a car plant of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. in India's northern state Haryana, a senior Maruti Suzuki official said Thursday.

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The official told Kyodo News over telephone that production at the plant has been halted since workers went on a rampage and set fire to the company's office in Manesar, about 15 kilometers from the state's second-largest city Gurgaon, Kyodo reports.

The Manesar plant is one of two operated in India by Maruti Suzuki, a subsidiary of Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp., which employs over 9,000 people in the country and is its largest car producer.

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