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Bus set on fire near Jatiya Press Club
News Desk
Metro
2023-10-31, 8:06pm
The incident took place when some unidentified arsonists torched the vehicle around 3:30pm.
A bus was set on fire near the Jatiya Press Club at Segunbagicha area in Dhaka on Tuesday amid the three-day countrywide blockade enforced by BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami.
The incident took place when some unidentified arsonists torched the vehicle around 3:30pm.
Being informed, firefighters rushed there and doused the blaze within 10 minutes, said Ershad Hossain, duty officer of Fire Service and Civil Defence control room.
Fire service sources said that a group of miscreants boarded on the vehicle disguising as passengers and torched the vehicle while they were getting off.