15 RMG workers hurt in clash with cops

At least 15 workers of a garment factory were injured when they clashed with ansar and police personnel at Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ) in Ashulia yesterday.
The workers also blocked Chandra-Bypail road in front of DEPZ for an hour from 9:00am, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Moktar Hossain told The Daily Star.
Witnesses said the clash started after on-duty ansar members barred a pregnant worker of D-Stylet, a garment factory, from entering the DEPZ area by a rickshaw-van around 8:30am and misbehaved with her.
ASP Moktar Hossain said when the news spread, the D-Stylet workers rushed to the spot and got locked into a quarrel with the ansar members leading to the clash.
At one stage, the angry workers blocked the Chandra-Bupail road halting traffic movement in the area.
On information, Industrial and Ashulia police reached the scene, charged batons on the protesting workers, and managed to free the road around 10:00am, said ASP Moktar.
After a halt of around two hours, the workers joined their work, he added.