Striking Cambodian garment worker shot

Striking Cambodian garment worker shot

PHNOM PENH (Reuters): Security guards at a Malaysian-owned
garment factory shot a 21-year-old female worker in the head on
Thursday during a violent protest outside the factory over pay
and conditions, police said.

The woman, a striking employee of the June Textile Co. Ltd.,
was in stable condition in the hospital, a trade union
representative said.

Police said factory guards fired into the crowd of about 1,000
protesting workers as they attempted to storm the factory gates.

Up to five other people, including policemen, were wounded
during the protest, apparently by stones thrown by the striking
workers, police said.

In a similar incident on Wednesday more than 1,000
demonstrators smashed through the gates of another garment
factory as they rushed in to urge workers there to join their
strike.