Continuous highway blockades by the garment workers have cripple Gazipur. For the third consecutive day, the workers from five factories of TNZ Apparels, blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway for unpaid wages.
The protest caused severe traffic disruptions, disconnecting Dhaka from Tangail and Mymensingh and leaving long-route buses and container trucks carrying export cargo stranded in massive tailbacks.
Law enforcement agencies are on high alert beside the highway to avert troubles.
Following the highway blockade, huge traffic disruptions were also created in the local streets, causing immense suffering to the local residents.
Traffic on the Dhaka-Mymensingh-Dhaka routes is being diverted.
A local trader Iqbal Hossain said, "Even in the last 50 years, there is no record of road blockade in Gazipur for such a long time. People from half of the regions of the country use this busy highway which has been blocked for the last three days."
Police said around 2,000 workers from TNZ Apparels Ltd are currently protesting on the highway.
The demonstrators have vowed not to leave the road until their unpaid wages are paid.
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