More than 700 Bangladeshi workers ransacked their country's embassy here yesterday, smashing furniture and pulling down chandeliers until police restored order, the Bangladeshi ambassador said. The rioters slightly injured two Bangladeshi civilians who happened to be visiting the embassy, Ambassador Nazrul Islam Khan said. "Only 100-150 workers entered the embassy while the rest waited outside. They destroyed furniture, some computers and documents like passports," he said. Police arrested many of the attackers but most were later released and only a few still remain in detention. A spokesman for the some 1,000 protesters at the embassy said their employer had not paid them their wages for the last five months. "The embassy called the police, who evicted the workers and arrested some of them," Khan said. "The other rioters fled."The local police commander declined to answer any questions, referring The Associated Press to the Interior Ministry's spokesman, who was not available. When the AP entered the embassy shortly after the police intervened, it saw chandeliers had been ripped from the ceiling, chairs and tables had been smashed, official papers scattered across the floor, and framed tourism posters yanked off the walls. The door to the ambassador's office had been forced, but the office appeared to be unharmed. Khan said he did not know why the laborers had attacked the embassy, but he said he was sure they were people "who were suffering." He said Bangladeshi workers regularly came to the embassy to complain about their employers' failure to pay them, but "this time nobody came to discuss it." He said the protest must have been organized because the workers arrived in buses. After their arrival, the workers threw rocks at the embassy windows. They overpowered the guards and entered the embassy. They also smashed the windows of five cars parked outside the embassy.