At least four Iranians were killed in the southeast province of Kerman when police fought a crowd of factory workers who were staging a sit-in at a copper smelting plant, a parliamentarian said yesterday.
He said the men were killed in the town of Khatunabad in the west of Kerman province.
The ISNA student news agency said workers had been lobbying to be given further contracts after the expiry of their smelting project.
Motorcycle gangs had roared into town during the dispute and attacked the governor's office and banks, it said.
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