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Published 26 Apr, 2020 05:51pm

Bangladesh textile workers flout lockdown to demand wages

Hundreds of textile workers in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka took to the streets demanding wages, flouting social distancing norms amid a nationwide lockdown to control the coronavirus pandemic, Reuters reported.

“We haven’t been paid for the last two months. We have no food, no money. We have been left to starve,” said Mohammad Ujjal, a worker at a garment factory in Dhaka who participated in the protest.

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