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  Hundreds of workers riot in Dubai
   By: PTI
   March 22, 2006

Dubai: Construction on a building expected to be the world's tallest was interrupted today after Asian workers angered by low salaries and mistreatment rioted, smashing cars and offices and causing what a government official said almost US $1 million in damage.

The stoppage also triggered a sympathy strike at Dubai International Airport today, when thousands of laborers building a massive new terminal also laid down their tools, airport and labour officials said.

Some 2,500 workers on the emerging Burj Dubai Tower and surrounding housing developments chased and beat security officers last night, broke into temporary offices and smashed computers and files, and destroyed about two dozen cars and construction machines, witnesses said.

The initial riot was caused by workers angered because buses to their residential camp were delayed after their shifts, witnesses at the site said.

An Interior Ministry official who investigates labour issues, Lt. Col. Rashid Bakhit Al Jumairi, said the rioters caused almost US $1 million in damage.

The workers, employed by Dubai-based construction firm Al Naboodah Laing O'Rourke, returned to the vast site today but refused to work.

The protesting workers are among almost a million migrants from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, China and elsewhere who have poured into Dubai to provide the low-wage muscle behind one of the world's great building booms.

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