Protest over arrears: 60 hurt as RMG workers, cops clash in N’ganj
At least 50 workers and 10 policemen were injured during a clash between garment workers and law enforcers in Narayanganj's Fatullah area yesterday afternoon.
The clash began around 12:30pm after hundreds of workers of Abanti Colour Tex Ltd, an export-oriented garment factory of Crony Group, organised a demonstration demanding outstanding salaries for March.
Some vehicles were also vandalised during the clash, which lasted for an hour.
Earlier in the day, hundreds of workers from the garment factory blocked the Dhaka-Munshiganj regional road in Narayanganj.
They came out of the factory located in the town's BSCIC area and blocked the road around 9:30am using bamboo and wooden sticks, creating a two-kilometre-long tailback on the busy road.
Assistant Superintendent of Industrial Police-4 Aynul Huda said at least 10 policemen were injured by brickbats thrown at them by the workers.
"Police went into action when the workers started vandalising the vehicles on the road."
On the other hand, workers claimed that at least 50 of them were injured in the clash, with at least 20 people hit by rubber bullets.
At least 7,000 workers are employed at the factory owned by AH Aslam Sunny.
Contacted, Sunny told The Daily Star, "We paid the Eid bonus to all workers. But the salary for March remains unpaid. The factory has just opened, and we will pay everyone's salary by next Wednesday."
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