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DHAKA—Hundreds of garment factories in Bangladesh have shuttered as thousands of workers staged violent protests to demand a near-tripling of their wages, police said Thursday.
Police said on Thursday that workers had ransacked dozens of factories across Gazipur and other industrial neighborhoods on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka since the protests began over the weekend. The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association , which represents factory owners, has offered a 25 percent pay raise.
Officers in Gazipur “fired tear gas and sound grenades at nearly 1,000” workers who blocked a road and staged protests, senior police officer Abu Siddique told AFP.Protests continued for a third day at Mirpur in Dhaka’s west, where police in riot gear fired tear gas and sound grenades at several thousand workers blockading a road, an AFP correspondent at the scene witnessed.
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