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BEIJING (AFP) – Four grouping were taken to infirmary and a glass entranceway smashed as a near-riot poor out at Beijing's crowning Apple accumulation among crowds running to behave up the favourite iPad 2 paper computer, according to land press.

Angry consumers began running the accumulation on Sat salutation after a "foreign" Apple employee allegedly stepped into the gathering to near and vex grouping suspected of line jumping, the Peiping News said.

After the employee retreated backwards into the store, a gathering of consumers smashed the glass face entranceway and shoved section guards as they surged nervy in anger over the alleged beatings, the inform said.

Consumers hit unsmooth up for hours at Apple stores in Peiping and Shanghai since the iPad 2, the updated version of the paper computer, went on sale in the world's large Internet mart on Friday.

The accumulation in Beijing's modishness Sanlitun advertizement regularise winking primeval Sat because of the altercation, but according to a vocalise transcription on the store's sound was open for playing Sunday.

Apple officials were not directly available for interpret when telephoned by AFP.

Police were work the incident and hit interviewed four grouping hospitalised with injuries, the Peiping News said.

Lines for the favourite iPad 2 hit grown so daylong that grouping hit begun commerce their places in the queue, patch a alternative mart has also matured with consumers reselling their paper computers for acquire after leaving the store, the inform said.

Late Saturday, the accumulation posted a notice locution that line actuation and the unofficial sales of Apple products would not be tolerated, the paper said.

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