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A massive strike on April 19, 2016 (Tuesday) by thousands of garment workers over restrictions on withdrawal of provident fund (PF) turned violent in Bengaluru, leading to burning of buses, as police caned and arrested many of them.
In This Pic : PF protesters clash with police in Bengaluru
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Outraged by the caning and forcible eviction of protesters at a demonstration on Monday, thousands of garment and other factory workers blocked two national highways (NH-4 and NH-7) passing through Bengaluru, causing massive traffic jams for over five hours.
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"As some anti-social elements among protesters took advantage of the tense situation and set three state-run buses on fire, damaged our vehicles and hurled stones at our force, injuring many of them, we fired tear gas shells and caned them to disperse them from the highways to restore traffic," a police official said.
In This Pic : PF protesters clash with police in Bengaluru
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The protests, which began in the city's southern side on Monday, spread on Tuesday to the northern side where a cluster of garment units are located, employing thousands of workers, 90 percent of them women.
In This Pic : PF protesters clash with police in Bengaluru
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A teenaged girl suffered bullet injuries when police fired warning shots at a violent mob which threw stones at policemen and attacked a police station.
In This Pic : PF protesters clash with police in Bengaluru
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