The 35-year-old worker died after being attacked while filming a clash outside a garment factory in Gazipur on 2 November.
Representational image of death.
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Representational image of death.
A garment worker who was critically injured during a clash amid protests demanding minimum monthly wage of Tk30,000 in Gazipur’s Joydebpur died while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Dhaka yesterday morning (3 November).
The deceased, Toufiq Hossain, 35, died around 8am at Shin Shin Japan Hospital in Uttara, where he had been receiving treatment in the intensive care unit (ICU).
Gazipur Industrial Police Superintendent Amzad Hossain confirmed the death.
Toufiq lived in a rented house owned by Khorshed Alam in the Bahadurpur area of Ward 22 in Gazipur city and worked as a bundleman in the cutting section of Laila Style Limited, also known as Laila Textile.
According to police and family sources, the incident occurred around 2pm on 2 November in front of Noman Terry Towel Mills Limited in Bahadurpur under Joydebpur Police Station.
A group of people gathered outside the factory with the intention of vandalising it amid ongoing protests by garment workers demanding higher wages.
Local residents and concerned citizens reportedly gathered to protect the garment factory, triggering a clash involving chasing and counter-chasing between the two sides.
At the time, Toufiq was recording the unrest on his mobile phone in front of the factory. Some protesting workers became angry after noticing him filming and attacked him with sticks and bricks, leaving him unconscious with serious injuries to his head and other parts of his body.
His relatives rescued him and took him to Shin Shin Japan Hospital on Garib-e-Newaz Avenue in Uttara’s Sector 11 for advanced treatment.
His relatives later took his body to his village home in Gobindaganj, Gaibandha, without a post-mortem examination.
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