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WORKER'S DEATH IN ROAD CRASH SPARKS 5-HR VIOLENCE

200 hurt, 100 vehicles damaged in Sreepur

STAFF CORRESPONDENT
Sreepur in Gazipur district yesterday burst into violence as a few thousand garment and transport workers clashed with each other following the death of a garment worker in a road accident early yesterday.
More than 200 people, including police and ansar personnel, were injured and over 100 vehicles were damaged during the five-hour violence starting at 5am.
Communication between Dhaka and 20 northern districts remained snapped for about five hours as the agitators blocked three kilometres of the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway, stretching from the FS Sweater Factory to local office of the Rural Electrification Board in Keoa area.
Witnesses and police said Habibur Rahman, 26, a worker of the FS Sweater Factory, died on the spot after an undetected vehicle had run over him at about 5am. Another worker, Yousuf Ali, 25, was seriously injured in the incident.
Discovering the body of their fellow garment worker lying on the road, around 4,000 garment workers turned unruly and, armed with sticks and brickbats, stood on roadsides along more than a kilometre of the highway and started attacking the running buses, private cars, trucks and vans, police said.
Some wayside shops were also damaged as the factory workers rained stones targeting at vehicles.
"At one stage hundreds of workers of the stranded vehicles chased the marauding garment workers and took control of the road for a few hours," said a transport union leader requesting anonymity.
The transport workers also attacked the FS Sweater Factory and damaged its windowpanes, machines and vehicles.
Reserve police force from Gazipur along with the forces from the Sreepur Police Station and Mouna police box charged baton on the unruly factory workers to bring the situation under control.
The officer-in-charge of the Sreepur Police Station told reporters that they arrested seven factory workers and that filing of a case against them under the Special Trial Act was on the underway.
General Manager of the FS Sweater Factory Major (Retd) Moshiur Rahman told newsmen that despite informing the police well ahead of the attack by the transport workers, the police did not come to save the factory. He also alleged that the transport workers attacked his factory in presence of policemen.
The police, however, denied the allegation.