The workers of a spinning mill in Gazipur’s Kaliakoir have blocked the Dhaka-Tangail Highway in a demonstration for backpay. The MSA Spinning Limited workers left the highway after three hours on Saturday evening when police baton-charged them and fired tear gas, reports bdnews24.com. Rezaul Karim, a local trader who witnessed the incident, said the workers took to the highway linking Bangladesh’s northern districts with the rest of the country at Shafipur in the afternoon, blocking traffic in both directions. The situation escalated as police tried to move the protesters back from the highway. The factory authorities were not available for comments.

Source: bd News24 June 25, 2023 15:47 UTC