On Monday morning, workers from various garment factories took to the streetsin the capital’s Banani and Chairmanbari areas demanding higher minimum wages.
Deputy Commissioner of Gulshan Division Lutful Kabir said law enforcers had removed the agitating workers from the road after they had staged a sit-in there around 11:30am.
He said the situation had been brought under control but the workers were trying to organise demonstrations in other areas.
Biplab Kumar,additional deputy commissioner of Tejgaon Division, told the Dhaka Tribune that the garment workers had taken to the streetsin the Tejgaon area around 10am.
The demonstrators barricaded the road untilpolice dispersed them around 11am.
The workers then proceeded to set fire to two motorcycles and a microbus in the area at 11:45am. They also broke the windows of Denim Garments.
