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Foxconn employee dies in 10th fall this year

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BEIJING, CHINA: An employee of tech firm Foxconn died on Friday after falling from a building in the southern manufacturing hub of Shenzhen, the tenth such fall since the start of this year, the official Xinhua news agency said.

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Foxconn  whose clients include Apple and Sony Ericsson, has faced criticism over the welfare of its employees after the spate of apparent suicides. The firm could not immediately be reached for comment on Friday.

The man who died on Friday, just before 5 am local time, was 21, Xinhua said, quoting a spokesman from the Shenzhen Public Security Bureau.

It was the eighth death of a Foxconn employee this year, with two workers surviving their falls, Xinhua added.

The Taiwan firm has a sprawling factory base in Shenzhen, near Hong Kong, where workers churn out products for the world's leading computer and phone companies in round-the-clock shifts.

Of 800,000 employees in China, 420,000 are based in Shenzhen, Xinhua said last week. Most are under 30. (Reporting by Emma Graham-Harrison and Sally Huang in Beijing and Melanie Lee in Shanghai; Editing by Nick Macfie)

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