Ready-made garment workers vandalised at least 20 vehicles on Dhaka-Tangail highway in Ashulia, on the outskirts of Dhaka, this morning while staging demonstration in protest against the disparity in their new wage structure.
Nearly 10-15 people were injured when police charged batons and used water cannon to disperse the protesting workers around 11:00am, our Savar correspondent reports quoting witnesses.
Some of the passengers were also injured when the workers threw brick chips targeting the windows of the vehicles.
While talking to our correspondent, Officer-in-charge of Ashulia Police Station Rezaul Haque, however, claimed that the agitating workers damaged at least six to seven vehicles on the highway.
Earlier around 9:30am, hundreds of workers of several garment factories including Windy Apparels Lt and Styling Creation Ltd took to the streets in Jamgora area of Ashulia for the sixth day, halting traffic movement on the highway.
Police dispersed them by charging batons and using water cannon around 10:00am but the garment workers again blocked the highway around 10:45pm.
The law enforcers managed to free the road around 11:45am, our correspondent reports quoting police.
The demonstrators were staying demonstration in front of their respective garment factories when the report was filed this noon.
Sana Shaminur Rahman, superintendent of Dhaka Industrial Police-1, told our correspondent that workers of nearly 29 garment factories of Ashulia and Savar areas jointly waged today’s demonstration.
Eight platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has been deployed in the areas to maintain the law and order situation.
