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● Garment workers return to work in Gazipur amid tight security ● Over 50 factories shut in Gazipur, seven closed indefinitely ● SP held for leaking sensitive info to banned AL ● Youth killed as dawn fire guts houses, shop in Korail slum ● Thousands of US flights cancelled, delayed ● Dream shattered as BD crash out of SAFF Championship ● PM to attend SAFF final if BD qualify: Aminul

Garment workers return to work in Gazipur amid tight security

Published : Sunday, 15 November, 2026 at 10:06 AM

Observer Online Report

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Garment workers began returning to factories in Gazipur on Sunday (November 15) morning under tight security, with 25 platoons of law enforcement personnel deployed under the supervision of 25 executive magistrates following days of unrest over minimum wage demands.

According to Arif Hossain, Assistant Commissioner (Media and Research Cell) of the Gazipur Deputy Commissioner's office, no fresh protests or road blockades were reported across the industrial belt as of 8:30AM, though authorities declared a holiday at six garment factories as a precautionary measure. To maintain law and order and protect state and private property, 13 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), five platoons of Ansar, and eight platoons of the Special Response Battalion (SRB) have been stationed on the ground.

The heightened security follows several days of demonstrations during which workers blocked the Dhaka-Tangail and Dhaka-Mymensingh highways, resulting in clashes with law enforcers, arson attacks on a police box, police vehicles, and a factory warehouse, multiple arrests, and the death of a worker named Toufiq who was beaten while filming the protests on his mobile phone.

-EM

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