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RMG worker beaten to death by guards

Staff Correspondent
A garment worker was beaten to death and another seriously injured as the security guards and officials of a garment factory in the capital's Mirpur roughed them up suspecting the two as thieves on Wednesday night.
The dead was identified as Mohammad Khokon, 23, a worker ofVertex Fashion Ltd at Mirpur.
Another worker Abdul Malek, who sustained severe injuries, is undergoing treatment at the Orthopaedic Hospital.
Police arrested factory Manager Nazrul Islam and security guard Abdur Rahim on charges of beating Khokon to death.
Injured Malek told the journalists yesterday that the security guards caught them suspecting the two as thieves when they came out of the factory about half-an-hour after its closure at 8:00pm on Wednesday.
He said they came out late as they had to go to toilet. All their fellow workers had already left the factory by then, he added.
Mirpur police said several officials and security guards of the factory beat them up suspecting their link with the theft ofTk 22,000 on Wednesday.
The security guards called the high-upsafter capturing them.
“Later, they took us to upper floor and started beating us mercilessly," Malek said adding that although they were seriously injured the garment officials did not take them to hospital immediately.
Security guard Mosharraf Hossain at about 2:15am yesterday took Khokon to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where the on-duty doctor declared him dead.
Khokon's body was sent to his ancestral home in Panchagarh last night.
The garment workers came to the factory yesterday morning but found it closed. The authorities asked them to return home saying that the factory had to be closed due to power disruption.
Hearing the news of death of their fellow worker, a group of 60 workers gathered in front of the factory at about 11:00am and tried to stage demonstration. But police foiled it.
A case was filed with Mirpur Police Station.
A large number of policemen had been deployed at the factory to avert any untoward incident.
BGMEA STATEMENT
Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) yesterday said the security guards of the factory found the two workers in the toilet where they hid themselves.
Later, the security guards beat them up leavingone of them dead.
Ihe BGMEA also said the factory authorities decided to give the victim's family Tk 5 lakh as compensation and already paid them Tk 1 lakh
They also sent Khokan's body to his ancestral home for burial.