The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Savar

Some 500 workers of a garment factory here fell sick yesterday after having lunch at their workplace, witnesses.

They said the workers of Cosmopolitan Garment Factory, owned by Indian citizen Dinesh Bhirawanir, at Khejurbagan started vomiting and fell sick one after another in the afternoon.

The ailing workers were treated at the medical centre of the factory where some 4,000 people work.

Meanwhile, 200 of the ailing workers returned home after taking first aid at the medical centre.