Garment factory workers went on rampage at Malibagh in Dhaka after two of their fellow workers died in a road accident at Malibagh Chowdhurypara on Tuesday.
Witnesses said the workers and pedestrians got agitated and vandalised around 40 vehicles and torched a bus after a Gazipur-bound bus of Suprabhat Paribahan ran over MH Garments workers Meem and Parvin when they were crossing the road near Abul Hotel in the afternoon.
Meem was killed on the spot and Parveen was seriously injured, police Sergeant Shuvo Kumar Dey told journalists.
Parveen was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors pronounced her dead, said Sub-Inspector Bachchu Mia, in-charge of DMCH police outpost.
Police seized the bus and arrested the driver.
As the death news spread around, garment workers took to the streets and damaged several buses.
Later, police took the situation under control.
The garment workers and the locals took to the streets again around 5:00pm and started staging demonstrations protesting the death of the female RMG workers in the road accident.
At one stage, they blocked the road on the opposite side of Hajipara CNG filling station, forcing the police to suspend traffic on both ways of the road.
At that time, they set fire to a bus and damaged around 30 others.
Although a fire-fighting unit started moving to the spot on information, it could not reach there as the road was blocked. However, the fire was doused by locals.
Later, police charged baton on the agitators and brought the situation under control.
Traffic on the road resumed around 6:30pm.
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