Dhaka: Agitated workers demonstrated on the Dhaka-Tangail highway after a security guard deployed to a garment factory in Bangladesh's Gazipur region died in a road mishap, media reports said.

The victim of the mishap was identified as 40-year-old Azadul Haque.

He was run over by a truck on Dhaka-Tangail highway at Chandra around 8 am on Sunday.

Three others were injured in the mishap.

The truck was subsequently torched by the angry workers of Mahmud Jeans factory, bdnews24.com reported.