Sacked New Delhi workers kill boss

Sacked workers beat to death the India head of an Italian industrial gear manufacturing company near New Delhi.

Lalit Kishore Choudhary, 47-year-old chief executive of Graziano Transmissioni India, died after he was beaten up in the company's office in Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh state.

The confrontation followed a long industrial dispute at the factory, which led to the dismissal of hundreds of employees.

Police said that 63 people had been arrested.