Five people killed as police fire at protesting workers in Bangladesh

Employees were demanding unpaid wages and a pay rise at a Chinese-backed power plant, officials and police saidAt least five people were killed and dozens injured in Bangladesh after police opened fire on a crowd of workers protesting to demand unpaid wages and a pay rise at a Chinese-backed power plant, officials and police said.Police opened fire after about 2,000 of the protesters began hurling bricks and stones at officers at the construction site of the coal-fired plant in the south-eastern city of Chittagong, local police official Azizul Islam told Reuters. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/17/five-people-killed-as-police-fire-at-protesting-workers-in-bangladesh #bangladesh #world_news #south_and_central_asia