Four people, including a bus helper has received severe burns when miscreants set two vehicles afire in the capital's Banashree and Dhanmondi areas on Thursday night.
Locals said some miscreants hurled petrol bombs at a bus of Alif Enterprise in the capital's Banashree area around 8:30pm, leaving the helper injured.
Injured Bappi, 25, have been admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital with 70% burns.
Shah Alam, who took Bappi to the DMCH, said: “Miscreants also exploded one crude bomb while fleeing the spot.”
Inspector Muzammel Haq, in-charge of DMCH police outpost confirmed the Dhaka Tribune about the incident.
On the other hand, three people have received burns after miscreants hurled three crude bombsat a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Dhanmondi.
The injured are Mosharraf Hossain Mohon, 30, hailed from Old Dhaka, his younger sister Farida Sultana Popy,25, and his aunt Shahin Akhter,40.
Inspector Muzammel said the injured have been admitted at the DMCH around 8:45pm.
So far, more than 70 people have died and scores have been injured in different parts of the country in violence during the BNP-led alliance enforced non-stop blockade.
Of those, a large number of arson attacks are being conducted on highways. Hundreds of vehicles, including those belonging to law-enforcers, were burnt and attacked.
The BNP led 20-party alliance has been enforcing a non-stop nationwide blockade since January 5 in protest against the “confinement” of the party chief Khaleda Zia.
Khaleda Zia had been kept confined to her Gulshan party office since January 3 ahead of a party rally, marking “Democracy Killing Day.”
On January 12, the security was relaxed.
But Khaleda never came out; instead she said in a press conference that she was going to stay there and the blockade would continue unless the government took the first steps towards solution.
For most of the day, the BNP-led 20-party alliance enforced blockade and hartal had little impact on the lives of the people on its 38th day, aside from a few stray incidents of violence across the country.
Law enforcers continued a crackdown on alleged anarchists in different parts of the country.
In the capital, city dwellers experienced traffic jams on the roads, a sign of relative normalcy.