Police on Sunday filed a case against 2,000 to 3,000 unidentified people in connection with Saturday’s violent clash between police and workers in Tongi that left two people dead and 100 others injured.

Tapan Saha, officer in-charge of Tongi Police Station, filed the case on various charges including illegal procession, vandalising vehicles and assaulting policemen. Earlier, police arrested eight people in this connection.

Two people were killed and 100 others, including 16 policemen, injured in Tongi in clashes between the law enforcers and several hundred garment workers protesting sudden closure of their factory without payment of arrears. One of those dead was named as Bablu Sheikh, 32, a rickshaw-van puller, while the other one could not yet be identified, Superintendent of Police in Gazipur SM Mahfuzul Haque Nuruzzaman told The Daily Star last night.

-Daily Star