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Blockade: Cotton-laden covered vans set on fire in Gazipur
News Desk
Crime
2023-11-23, 9:59am
Two cotton-laden covered vans were set on fire on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Salna in Gazipur city early Thursday.
Two cotton-laden covered vans were set on fire on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Salna in Gazipur city early Thursday.
Abdus Samad, station officer of Gazipur Fire Service, said blockade supporters, riding on a private car and motorbike, intercepted the two cotton-carrying covered vans at 5:30 am at Salna and set fire to the vehicles pouring petrol on those.
Receiving information, two fire-fighting units rushed to the spot and extinguished the blaze.
No one was injured during the attack.