<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>At least five members of Gazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP) sustained injuries in a blast of an Armed Personnel Carriers (APC) during a clash with readymade garment (RMG) workers on Dhaka-Tangail Highway on Wednesday afternoon.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The injured are Prabir, 30, Fuad, 28, Khorshed, 30, Ashiqul, 27, and Bipul, 24.</div><div><br></div><div>Locals said RMG workers were demonstrating on the highway demanding a monthly minimum wage of Tk 23,000 instead of government-announced Tk12,500.</div><div><br></div><div>At one stage of the demonstration, a clash broke out between the RMG workers and law enforcers, they said.</div><div><br></div><div>The APC went off suddenly when it was being used to tackle the demonstrating workers. Five cops who were inside the APC, sustained injuries in the blast.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Initially, they were rushed to Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmad Medical College Hospital and three of them shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), said Shaheed Tajuddin Hospital's resident physician Rafiqul Islam.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Prabir, Fuad, and Khorshed, 30, were sent to the DMCH for better treatment, he said, adding that Ashiqul and Bipul, 24, were undergoing treatment in Gazipur.</div><div><br></div><div>Md Ibrahim Khan, deputy commissioner (DC-DB) of the GMP, could not be reached over mobile phone despite repeated attempts in this regard.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier in the morning, a female RMG worker named Anjuara Khatun was killed and 10 were injured in a clash between police and workers at Konabari in Gazipur.</div><div><br></div><div>Witnesses said workers of garment factories took to the streets in the morning in Konabari, demanding Tk 23,000 as the monthly minimum salary.</div><div><br></div><div>On information, police fired rubber bullets, stun grenades and tear gas to disperse them, triggering a clash that left 11 people injured.</div><div><br></div><div>The protesting garment workers claimed that Anjuara died on the way to the DMCH. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>