RMG workers torch, vandalise vehicles in Gazipur

Agitated garment workers vandalised several vehicles, torched a bus and blocked Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Gazipur demanding due wages Wednesday evening.

Workers of East West ready made garment factory came on the road around 7:00pm and blocked the highway for two hours near Chhoydana area in Gazipur. During the blockade, they vandalised several vehicles and set fire to a bus.

A clash erupted as police lobbed tear gas canisters and fired several rounds of rubber bullets to disperse the agitated workers, said our Gazipur correspondent quoting Mahfuzur Rahman, assistant sub-inspector of Gazipur Industrial Police.

The traffic came to normalcy around 9:00pm on the highway, he added.