Vehicular movement on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway resumed after around 3 hours’ of suspension following an accident that left a garment worker dead.
The accident happened at about 8:30am in the Gazipur Metropolitan Kunia Targachh area.
According to RMG workers, locals and police, Munira, 30, a worker of Bernhardtz Textile Industry Ltd, died on the spot after a Gazipur City Corporation garbage truck ran over her in the area.
The accident, later, spread protest. The workers took to the streets and blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway.
They also vandalised several vehicles and set fire to the garbage truck, said Gazipur’s Gachha Police Station OC Md Shah Alam.
The vehicle movement resumed after police brought the situation under control around 11:45am.
