Three buses were set on fire within half an hour in Dhaka’s Elephant Road, New Market and Sayedabad areas on Saturday evening ahead of BNP’s two-day blockade from Sunday.
According to station officer of Fire Service Talha Bin Zasim, a passenger bus of Mirpur Link Paribahan was torched in front of Gawsia Market in the capital around 7:30 pm.
Another bus owned by Green University was set on fire around 7:43 pm outside the Multiplan Center in the Elephant Road area. And the third bus was torched under the flyover near Janapath intersection of Sayedabad around 7:55 pm.
Bd-pratidin English/Golam Rosul