Clash between Chinese employees of the coal power project and villagers in Sri Lanka

(July 07, 2009) A Chinese national was injured and hospitalized following a clash with a group of villagers of Bingiriya area in the Northwestern Province of Sri Lanka on July 05.

The Chinese national is an employee of a concrete workshop belonged to the contractors of the Norochcholai coal power plant.

Reports from the area said that the Chinese employees tied a villager in the workplace and the villagers clashed with the employees after that. Four villagers were also injured.

Sri Lanka's first coal power plant is under construction in the Northwestern Province with credit facilities provided by the Export and Import Bank of China.