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Internet Edition. December 19, 2007, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM

Garment workers ransack factory for Eid bonus, arrears in Gazipur

UNB, Gazipur

Garment Workers ransacked a factory and set fire to it at Shafipur in Kaliakoir upazila Monday evening demanding their Eid bonus and arrears.

Sources said as the workers of Karnic Knit Composite Factory didn't get their Eid bonus and arrears they ransacked the factory and set fire to it.

The firefighters from Savar and Gazipur fire service put out the blaze after hour-long frantic efforts.

Sources said huge yarn and machinery were burned in the fire.

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