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Three new suicides at Foxconn China factory

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A Foxconn recruitment point in Shenzhen. Three Foxconn workers have committed suicide at a factory in China in the past three weeks. Photo: AFP

Three Foxconn workers have committed suicide at a factory in China in the past three weeks, a labour rights group said on 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, media reports said.

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“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.

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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.

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