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Chinese companies in Libya looted, no casualties reported
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February 22, 2011, Tuesday
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SEVERAL Chinese companies in Libya have been attacked and looted, but no casualties were reported yet, a Chinese worker there has said.
A construction site run by Huafeng Construction Co., Ltd. from China's Zhejiang Province was looted by a group of armed gangsters Sunday afternoon in the eastern city of Agedabia, and nearly 1,000 Chinese workers there were forced out of the site and became homeless, said Yuan Canhua, a Chinese living in the suburb of Tripoli, capital city of Libya.
The Chinese worker said one of the robbed construction workers phoned him after the looting.
The construction workers then left the city on foot and were trying to walk towards Tripoli hundreds of kilometers away, hoping to catch a plane here to fly back to China, he said.
Staff at the headquarters of the company in Zhejiang Province said yesterday the workers in Libya had been transferred to a safe place.
Some Chinese workers here said nearly all Chinese companies in the country were "attacked or looted." But Chinese companies were not the sole target of the series of lootings in Libya. Several South Korean-run construction sites were also looted.
Also yesterday, China's Ministry of Commerce urged Chinese businesses in Libya to pay increased attention to their security and suggested Chinese businessmen planning to visit Libya postpone their plans for the time being.
Inspired by protests in Tunisia and Egypt, Libyan protesters started to take to the streets early last week to end Muammar Gaddafi's 41-year-long rule.
A construction site run by Huafeng Construction Co., Ltd. from China's Zhejiang Province was looted by a group of armed gangsters Sunday afternoon in the eastern city of Agedabia, and nearly 1,000 Chinese workers there were forced out of the site and became homeless, said Yuan Canhua, a Chinese living in the suburb of Tripoli, capital city of Libya.
The Chinese worker said one of the robbed construction workers phoned him after the looting.
The construction workers then left the city on foot and were trying to walk towards Tripoli hundreds of kilometers away, hoping to catch a plane here to fly back to China, he said.
Staff at the headquarters of the company in Zhejiang Province said yesterday the workers in Libya had been transferred to a safe place.
Some Chinese workers here said nearly all Chinese companies in the country were "attacked or looted." But Chinese companies were not the sole target of the series of lootings in Libya. Several South Korean-run construction sites were also looted.
Also yesterday, China's Ministry of Commerce urged Chinese businesses in Libya to pay increased attention to their security and suggested Chinese businessmen planning to visit Libya postpone their plans for the time being.
Inspired by protests in Tunisia and Egypt, Libyan protesters started to take to the streets early last week to end Muammar Gaddafi's 41-year-long rule.
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