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Striking workers forcibly removed from tannery in Uruguay

17/02/2006

Four people - three workers and one of the tannery owners, Constantino Toupkos - from a Uruguayan tannery have been hospitalised following a violent incident at Naussa S.A. in the town of Las Piedras, 23 km north of Montevideo, Uruguay. Reports state that the tannery owners and a group of workers, armed with sticks and stones, entered the premises and attacked the workers that had been occupying the tannery days before to evict them.

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