Garment workers blockade road, smash DNCC vehicles
Garments workers blockaded a road at Shalehopur area of Savar on Dhaka-Aricha highway for four hours yesterday, following a Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) staffer's assault on a female garment worker.
Passengers suffered as a tailback spanning around 10 kilometres was formed on both sides of the highway due to the blockade.
Local and witnesses said a vehicle carrying workers of Bando Apparels Ltd and a waste disposal vehicle of the city corporation hit each other in Shalehopur area at around 8am, prompting an altercation. At one stage, a city corporation worker hit a female worker with an iron shovel.
When agitating workers seized the city corporation vehicle, its driver and other staffers fled the spot leaving the vehicle.
As the news spread quickly, hundreds of workers of the factory blocked the road and vandalised at least five vehicles including two vehicles of the city corporation.
Police rushed to the spot and managed to free the road at around 12:30pm, said Abdul Awal, officer-in-charge of Savar Model Police Station.
Two city corporation vehicles, which were vandalised by workers, were taken to the police station, the police officer added.
Talking to The Daily Star, Milton Kazi, manager (compliance) of Bando Apparels Ltd, said the injured female worker was sent to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital for treatment. They shut the factory for the day following the incident.
“I got stranded for around two hours at one spot. Finding no way, I started walking to come to Dhaka,” said Anisur Rahman, a college student, who was traveling from Savar to Dhaka.
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