At least 112 working-class people were killed in violence during the movement of the Student Movement Against Discrimination platform and the subsequent student-led mass uprising, according to a report of the Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies.
The report, prepared based on media reports mostly published between July 16 and August 4, also revealed that of the deceased, 23 were child labourers aged between 13 and 18 years.
Among the deceased, 21 were shopkeepers, 15 rickshaw pullers, 12 transportation workers, nine garment workers, nine day labourers, six construction workers, five hawkers, four hotel workers, and the rest worked in various sectors, including power and workshops.
The report also noted that at least 25 other workers were also injured and five, including two children, were arrested in different cases.
BILS joint general secretary Syed Sultan Uddin Ahmed said that so far, the institute collected names of 112 workers and working-class people from various newspapers, and the number might increase further as they were still updating the list of the deceased.
Labour leaders demanded adequate compensations for the affected families.
Expressing concern over the significant numbers of deaths of working class people, labour leader Mintu Ghosh demanded trials of killers and adequate compensations for the affected families.
Taslima Akhter, president of the Garment Sramik Samhati, told 抖阴精品 on Thursday that they were also preparing a list of dead and wounded garment workers from the recent student movement and so far identified the names of 12 garment workers who died in the movement.聽
On August 28, while visiting the injured police personnel and others undergoing treatment at Central Police Hospital in the capital, the interim government鈥檚 health adviser Nurjahan Begum said that more than 1,000 people had been killed in the recent student-led mass uprising in Bangladesh.聽
