Bangladesh workers in pay protest

Thousands of workers from the garment industry demonstrated on Monday near the Bangladeshi capital over a new minimum wage they call too low, defying government warnings against moves that might jeopardise the country's top export earner.

At least 25 protesters were injured when security officials charged with batons to remove them from a major highway at Ashulia and Savar, a major industrial hub just outside Dhaka that supplies international chains including Wal-Mart, Gap and Marks & Spencer.

About a dozen factories closed on Monday to avoid being damaged, as the rampaging workers attacked some of them, police official Mahbubur Rahman said. He added that the protesters fled when additional security arrived.