HANOI — A boy was killed and a man left in critical condition when violence broke out during a protest at the site of a planned oil refinery in northern Vietnam, residents and hospital officials said Wednesday.
The incident occurred Tuesday more than 150 kilometres (90 miles) south of Hanoi on land designated for the Nghi Son oil refinery.
Land disputes and complaints that residents have been cheated out of compensation have become the most common cause of protests in Vietnam, a mainly rural country that is rapidly industrialising.
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