As many as twenty-two staffers reportedly attempted to immolate themselves outside a sugar factory in Maharashtra's Latur on Monday to protest the non-payment of salaries, police said, according to the PTI.

The news agency reported, the staffers from the security and electrical departments of the Pannageshwar sugar factory at Pangaon in Renapur tehsil attempted to immolate themselves by pouring diesel and petrol on their bodies, an official said.