Four buses set on fire in Dhaka

Desk News :: Unidentified people set fire to four buses at four separate places in Bangladesh capital Dhaka Saturday evening.

The of the buses – one each in Elephant road are, New Market area and Jatrabari area — were torched within a span of 20 minutes from 7:30pm while the other one was torched at Gulistan at about 10:00pm, Fire Service and Civil Defence officials said.

No casualty was reported so far.

One of the bus was torched in front of Multiplan City Centre on Elephant Road at about 7:35pm, another one at the gate number 4 of New Market at about 7:30pm and the other one near Janapath crossing in Jatrabari area at about 7:50pm, said Fire Service and Civil Defence headquarters’ control room duty-officer Rozina Akhter.

She said that separate firefighting units rushed to the spot, immediately after getting the information and doused the fire.

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Another bus was set on fire in front of the underground market in Gulistan area at about 10:00pm and a fire service team, on information from locals, rushed to the spot to douse the fire, said another duty officer at the control room at about 10:15pm.