Samsung Workers Held Hostage as Bandits Make Brazil Factory Haul
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Thieves held hundreds of employees hostage as they hauled away truckloads of merchandise from a factory in Sao Paulo owned by Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest smartphone maker.
About 20 bandits invaded the company’s factory in the city of Campinas this morning, using as many as 10 trucks to steal 40,000 units of product, the press office of the state civil police force said by phone. About 200 employees were held hostage as thieves snatched tablets, mobile phones and laptop computers, Agencia Estado reported without saying where it got the information.