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Four Injured in iPad Brawl

Apple started selling 2nd gen tablet in China Friday.

They really love their Apple products in China. According to state news, as hundreds of tech geeks waited anxiously on line in Beijing to purchase an iPad 2, a “foreign” Apple store employee allegedly pushed and beat several people accused of jumping the line. This sparked a brawl which led to four people being injured, a glass door being shattered, and one 30-year-old man, Wang Ming, claiming to have been hit in the head with a bottle. Apple debuted their second-gen tablet, the iPad 2, in Beijing and Shanghai on Friday, and the melee-hosting store in Beijing’s Sanlitun commercial district was closed early Saturday because of the fracas, but was back open for business Sunday. “We're working hard to get the iPad 2 into the hands of every customer who wants one as quickly as possible," said Carolyn Wu, a Beijing-based spokeswoman at Apple. Demand for the iPad 2 "has been amazing," she added.