A journalist of a private television channel was beat up by police during a chase and counter chase with protesting garment workers on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Gazipur today.
The injured journalist Monirul Islam is a Gazipur correspondent of Somoy TV.
“Despite repeatedly saying that I am a journalist of Somoy TV, police attacked me with iron rods while they were dispersing the protesters at Signboard area,” Monirul Islam said.
He is undergoing treatment at a local clinic till last reported at 12:45pm.
As a part of the ongoing unrest in Savar and Gazipur, the workers today blocked different points of the highway several times from 9:00am to 11:00am which created severe traffic congestion, said Inspector Rofiqul Islam of Gazipur Industrial Police.
“We dispersed the workers using tear-gas shells,” he said.
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