Rail group pays up after attack by workers
By Zha Minjie |
February 22, 2013, Friday
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A COUNTY government in southwest China's Yunnan Province said last night that an agreement had been reached over an incident in which villagers were beaten and their houses and property damaged by more than 100 railway construction workers.
The China Railway Tunnel Group has agreed to pay 300,000 yuan (US$48,000) as compensation for daily necessities damaged by the workers, Funing County's publicity department said.
The group also agreed compensation for motorcycles, agricultural vehicles and home appliances.
Officials at the Funing section of a railway project have apologized to villagers.
Chen Yujiang, an official with the Funing County's publicity department, said that 56 households in the small village were damaged in an incident triggered by a dispute on February 12.
Two railway workers had ridden through Yan Village on a motorcycle, splashing mud onto villagers walking by.
The villagers forced the duo to pay 600 yuan compensation and then beat them up, the official said.
The next day more than 100 workers from the construction company arrived, attacking residents and smashing property as they rampaged through the village.
An online post claimed that some villagers had taken children and the elderly into the mountains to hide in order to escape the attack.
The construction group is building a line linking Kunming, the provincial capital, to Nanning, capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, a distance of 710 kilometers.
The railway project is due to be completed by 2015.
The China Railway Tunnel Group has agreed to pay 300,000 yuan (US$48,000) as compensation for daily necessities damaged by the workers, Funing County's publicity department said.
The group also agreed compensation for motorcycles, agricultural vehicles and home appliances.
Officials at the Funing section of a railway project have apologized to villagers.
Chen Yujiang, an official with the Funing County's publicity department, said that 56 households in the small village were damaged in an incident triggered by a dispute on February 12.
Two railway workers had ridden through Yan Village on a motorcycle, splashing mud onto villagers walking by.
The villagers forced the duo to pay 600 yuan compensation and then beat them up, the official said.
The next day more than 100 workers from the construction company arrived, attacking residents and smashing property as they rampaged through the village.
An online post claimed that some villagers had taken children and the elderly into the mountains to hide in order to escape the attack.
The construction group is building a line linking Kunming, the provincial capital, to Nanning, capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, a distance of 710 kilometers.
The railway project is due to be completed by 2015.
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