Online Desk: Workers of different garment factories and local people blocked Dhaka-Mymensingh highway and vandalised vehicles on Saturday, protesting the death of a female worker in road crash at Kunia Taragach in Gazipur district on Saturday.
Munira, an operator of a textile factory, died on the spot when a garbage truck knocked her down while she was crossing road around 8 am, said Muhammad Kamal Hossain, deputy-police commissioner of Gazipur Metropolitan Police quoting witnesses.

Angered by the accident, local people and workers of different garment factories took to the highway and vandalized some vehicles passing the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway.
Later, they put up barricade on the highway, halting vehicular movement.
However, the situation is now under control as the workers left the highway after police intervention, said police.