Foxconn confirmed on Wednesday that two of its plant employees died last week in Zhengzhou, Henan province.

Liu Kun, a company spokesman, said in a statement to China Daily that one of the two, found on Tuesday, is likely to have committed suicide, while the other died of illness on Friday night, just two days after she was recruited.

Foxconn, the world's largest electronics contract manufacturer, is a major supplier of components to companies such as Apple and HP. It has more than a million employees on the Chinese mainland.