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Bangladesh factory shutdowns follow garment workers' wage protests, report says

Footage from Dhaka, Gazipur and Ashulia shows stone-throwing and tear gas, with a wage dispute at the center of the report.

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0:00Archival and more recent footage shows stone-throwing and police tear gas in Dhaka, Gazipur and Ashulia.
0:06The narrator identifies the unrest as garment workers' demonstrations in Bangladesh.
0:19The report says workers demand wages of 23,000 taka instead of 9,000, with multiple factories shut.

Riot police advance through tear gas smoke as protesters throw stones in footage of unrest in Bangladesh's garment-producing areas. India's Zee News reports that workers demanding higher wages have clashed with police and that multiple factories have shut down.

The Hindi-language report identifies Dhaka, the capital, along with Gazipur and Ashulia as locations affected by the unrest. Gazipur is an industrial center north of Dhaka, while Ashulia lies near the capital. Both are part of the landscape of Bangladesh's garment industry.

According to the narrator, workers want wages raised from 9,000 to 23,000 taka, more than double the stated starting amount. Police carrying shields, batons and tear gas launchers move through the streets, while onscreen captions describe arson, vandalism and confrontations with officers.

Although the video's title frames the unrest in religious terms, the report itself describes a labor dispute over garment workers' pay. It combines archival and more recent footage; its publication date does not establish the date of every confrontation shown.

The narrator describes Bangladesh as the world's second-largest exporter of ready-made garments, placing the factory closures within an industry central to the country's export economy.

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