Protest over power outage

Clash with police in Narsingdi: 50 hurt

BANGLADESH – At least 50 textile workers were injured as police charged baton to disperse them from the Palli Bidyut Samiti office premises at Choala in the town yesterday.

The textile workers were protesting irregular power supply to their factories.

Eyewitnesses said over 1000 agitated workers entered the Palli Bidyut Samiti-2 building at around 4:00pm and damaged documents and furniture. They set fire to 12 parked motorcycles of the Samiti, two transformers worth Tk 2.5 crore and the special circuit breaker in the control room. Ten policemen, including SI Rafique, were injured after being hit by brickbats thrown at them by the agitating workers.

Employees of the Bidyut Samiti took shelter on the top floor of the three-storied building to escape the public wrath during the attack.

The New Nation (Bangladesh)