The New Nation - Internet Edition

Law-enforcing agency personnel guarding the
Hemayetpur road at Savar yesterday following unrest of
garment workers. Focus Bangla

UNB, Savar

Garment workers went berserk and blocked Dhaka-Aricha highway for two and half-hours Friday morning following the death of a fellow worker in a road accident at Hemayetpur here. The agitated workers also damaged 20/30 vehicles and clashed with police, leaving 20 cops and some workers injured. Sources said when Nasir, 35, was crushed under the wheels of a bus on the road near his workplace, AAKH Fashion, at about 7:45 am his fellow workers protesting the accident took to the street. Workers of some other garment factories also joined with the workers of AAKH Fashion and put up barricade on the road, disrupting vehicular movement for about two and half-hours. "When police tried to remove the barricade the garment workers clashed with police, turning the place virtually into a battle field", said a spot account of the incident.

Later, army and RAB personnel rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control at about 10:15am.