The Foxconn self-destruction fix has gotten even mussy , with another reported death and 30 suicide attempts in the retiring three weeks alone .
The late death was a 21 - yr - one-time man who reportedly fell from the seventh - tale windowpane of one of Foxconn ’s many worker dormitories in Shenzhen , China . He had sustained several knife snub and a “ obelisk ” was discover at the scene . The death has not yet been ruled a felo-de-se , even though the circumstances ( jumping from a dormitory ) mimic those we ’ve seen with Foxconn suicide in the past .
We recentlybroke down the Foxconn suicide numbers , and at the time the stats were in line or even below China ’s overall suicide charge per unit , but the revealing that 30 mass have set about self-annihilation in the past three week is perhaps declarative of a much larger , much more troubling phenomenon .
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Telegraph columnist Malcolm Moore , who ’s been chronicling the suicides in - country for some time now , has label this a “ self-destruction cluster , ” wherein “ the feeling of felo-de-se spreads rapidly through a group of people , often teenagers or immature adults . ” It just so happens that nine of the Foxconn worker who killed themselves by jump off from their dorms earlier this class were all 25 - years - onetime or younger and had been working at Foxconn for less than six months .
Foxconn is reportedly at a loss as to how and stop the “ self-annihilation bunch ” from unfold further . The despairing company has even brought in a Buddhist monastic to try and free the factories of “ evil spirits . ” [ The Telegraph ]
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