Ashulia RMG unrest: Factory owners to give Tk5 lakh compensation to family of killed worker 

Mango Tex, a divulge of SM Sourcing, has promised to pay Tk5 lakh to the family of Kawsar Hossain Khan, who was once killed at some level of a conflict between workers and legislation enforcers in Ashulia today time (30 September).

“We also made up our minds to pay his family Tk5 lakh for his or her strengthen as it was once a huge loss for them and our family,” Mango Tex Managing Director Mirza Shams Sakti told The Exchange Long-established.

“His [the worker’s] body is at Suhrawardy Sanatorium for postmortem. Our high officers are there with the body,” he added.

Mirza Shams said Kawsar was once a swing operator at the manufacturing facility.

He alleged that some outsiders brought a procession conclude to the Mango Tex manufacturing facility. Later workers from the manufacturing facility joined them, main to the closure of the manufacturing facility.

Mirza said Kawsar died about Forty five minutes after in a conflict with legislation enforcement agencies in entrance of a Mondol Community manufacturing facility.

Kawsar’s body will probably be despatched to his village house at Mehendiganj in Barishal.

Another workers had been injured within the conflict.

“They’re being handled at Enam Scientific College Sanatorium in Savar. We’re caring for them and paying their medicines costs,” he added.

“Three folks with gunshot wounds had been brought to our hospital around 1:00pm, one among whom was once already needless,” Yusuf Ali, duty manager at Enam Scientific College Sanatorium in Savar, told TBS earlier within the day.

Extra two had been brought later on, each and each workers had been fragment of the Natural Indigo manufacturing facility.

Unrest began with faux rumours of two workers’ loss of life: BGMEA

Meanwhile, in a assertion within the afternoon, the Bangladesh Garment Producers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) said within the presence of the army, a dialogue between the householders and the workers’ representatives was once happening within the manufacturing facility of the Mondol Community within the Jirabo articulate of ​​the Tongi-Ashulia-EPZ avenue.

BGMEA said at that time, some outsiders spread faux rumours about the loss of life of two workers of the team and demonstrated open air its manufacturing facility. Later workers from other factories also started gathering there.

Later a conflict ensued between legislation enforcers and the workers.

“The outsiders and workers vandalised a few vehicles of the legislation enforcers. Later, when the workers grew to turn out to be extra agitated, the legislation enforcement forces participants had been compelled to fireplace in self-defence,” claimed the BGMEA assertion.

It also said a few workers and participants of legislation enforcement agencies had been injured within the conflict.

“The injured workers had been admitted to the native PMK Sanatorium and Enam Scientific College Sanatorium in Savar. The doctor on duty at Enam Scientific declared the labourer Kawsar Hossain Khan needless. He’s a producing facility worker of Mango Tex Miniature within the Jirabo articulate of ​​Ashulia. BGMEA is deeply saddened by the lack of workers,” reads the assertion.

At the least 11 injured participants of legislation enforcement agencies are currently beneath medicines at the Blended Militia Sanatorium (CMH), said BGMEA.