DUBAI, 4 July 2006 — Hundreds of furious laborers damaged several vehicles and camp offices at a labor camp in the Arabian Ranches on the Emirates Road here Sunday night. The laborers, employees of Arabtec, were protesting water shortage in their camp. “We are about 3,500 laborers and the company is providing four tankers of water, which is insufficient for us,”said one worker. The camp manager, Ala Khaleel, said that a water tanker was supposed to reach the camp at midnight but it got delayed due to a flat tire and that was the reason for the chaos.
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