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Doha: A per reports on social media clashes have broken out between police forces and workers at an industrial free zone in Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich Eastern Province during riots over unpaid wages.
According to social media posts, which has been shared widely in the region, Saudi Arabian security forces were seen shooting against protesting expatriate workers in the city of Dhahran.
As per the video posted by some Saudi Twitter users, the confrontation erupted after police tried to clear a gathering that workers from the Azmeel Contracting & Construction Corporation had formed in protest over their unpaid salaries.
Hundreds of workers of Azmeel company, who are working in the Ajyal Aramco Dhahran project organized a protest at the workplace to demand their pending dues for the past six months. Police forces resorted to force to disperse the workers and was seen in the video firing at the protestors.
The police action caused chaos among the protestors, who broke some company cars and ransacked offices at the project site, details of injuries is not known yet.
According to a Twitter user, who claims to work in the company as an engineer claimed that the expatriate workers were not paid for the past 7 months while their Saudi counterparts for the last 5 months.
He explained the situation in the company as bad in a tweet “Unfortunately, the company has a very bad reputation: delayed salaries. Many Saudi employees left the company as they are not following the ministry rules and stopped the medical insurance for the employee's family.”
