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Tongi reels from fright

Another death raises toll to 3; up to 3,000 people sued for violence

Muklesur Rahman
Another man died from wounds in hospital yesterday raising the death toll to three in Saturday's labour unrest at Nippon Garment Industries Ltd inTongi.
Police filed a case against 2,000 to 3,000 unidentified people along with eight others, detained on Saturday with ties to the clashes between police and workers. T\vo persons died on the spot and 100 others were injured in the incident.
Thjul Islam, 50, a resident of Ershad Nagar in Tongi. who was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital with head injuries on Saturday, died early in the morning.
The bodies of the two others - Babiu Sheikh, 32, a rickshaw-van puller, and Shafique. a construction worker from Ershad Nagar -- were taken to Gazipur Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy on Saturday night.
A correspondent from Gazipur reported that both bodies bore bullet marks.
Later, the bodies of Babiu and Shafique were sent to their village homes in Jamalpur and Bhola, said police.
Tapan Saha, officer-in-charge of Tongi Police Station, told The Daily Star that he had filed the case on charges of assault on law enforcers, vandalism and torching vehicles.
Law enforcers were deployed in and around the garment factory that remained closed following the violent clashes.
Several hundred workers of the factory demanded a fair probe into the incident and trial of the factory owners at a protest rally near Majida High School in Ershad Nagar.
They also demanded punishment to the law enforcers involved in what they said was indiscriminate firing on garment workers and locals. Apart from 800 reserve police in the district, 200 more from adjacent districts and five platoons from Dhaka Metropolitan Police have been put in place to tighten security at garment factories, said Gazipur Police Super SM Mahfuzul Haque Nuruzzaman.
Family menfbers of the workers missing since Saturday's clashes scoured city hospitals and police stations yesterday for their loved ones.
Momtaj Begum. 55, along with her three daughters, looked in vain for her construction worker husband at the DMCH.Tongi Hospital, Gazipur Sadar Hospital and around the factory.
"I saw on the television that my husband with a bloodied forehead was being whisked away in a police van in front of the factory," said Momtaj, a construction worker from Ershad Nagar.
"I am yet to find any trace of my husband," shesaid.
Family members of the missing workers and locals were still in search of their dear ones.