RMG worker dies in Savar amid unrest over pay hike

A readymade garment factory worker at Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka has died on Tuesday amid street demonstrations for a hike in wages.

Police and doctors could not confirm how Sumon Mia, 22, an employee of Anlima Textile in the Ulail area, died. 

“I took Sumon to hospital after finding him in an unconscious state inside the factory. I don’t know how he died,” said ‘Ripon’, one of his co-workers who brought him to Savar Upazila Health Complex on Tuesday afternoon.

“There was no unrest in the factory today,” Savar Police Station OC Abdul Awal said.

He declined comment on the cause of the death before getting the post-mortem examination report, for which the body has been sent to the Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital in the capital.

Savar Upazila Health and Family Planning Officer Amzadul Haque said that Sumon was brought to the health complex at around 4:15pm but the doctors found that he had already died.

There was a wound on the left side of Sumon’s chest, Amzadul added, reports bdnews24.

Sumon lived in Savar’s Karnaparha, according to the health complex’s registrar.

The RMG workers hit the streets in Dhaka on Sunday blocking key Airport Road for hours over several demands, including implementation of the new wage structure announced one and a half months ago.