A 42-year old contract worker from Tamil Nadu employed with a Korean group has been killed and another seriously injured in gunfire during the anti-government violence in Libya, the victim's family said.
The fate of his 22 other colleagues, who also hailed from remote Thalaivankottai village in the district, was not known, according to Vellathai, who gave a petition to the district collector seeking steps to retrieve the body of her husband.
Vellathai, in her representation to M Jeyaraman, said her husband's colleague Ashok Kumar informed the family on February 20 about the death of Murugaiah, employed with Hyundai group.
She said Kumar also told her he was seriously injured in the gunfire that caused a blaze in the camp where the workers had been put up.
Vellathai sought intervention of the Union government to bring back the body of her husband and also ascertain the condition of others whose names were listed in the petition.
"We are desperately looking for government's help to retrieve and bring back the body of my husband and to know the status of other labourers," she said.
According to the petitioner, 24 semi-skilled workers from the village were employed on a two-year contract by the Korean company for erecting electricity towers on a monthly salary of Rs 30,000.
The workers are allowed four days leave annually to visit their homes and they were to come this month-end, a sobbing Vellathai told mediapersons.
