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When the workers started to move to the highway, police intercepted them, the witnesses said.
Facing obstruction, the demonstrators hurled brick chunks at the law enforcers and blocked Dhaka-Mymensingh highway around 12:15pm.
Eight members of Industrial Police sustained injuries during the clash, said Jalal Hawlader, additional superintendent of Gazipur Industrial Police.
He said that police fired teargas shells and rubber bullets to disperse the workers.
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