A passenger bus was set on fire by arsonists at Ashulia in Savar on Monday ahead of BNP’s 36-hour road-rail-waterway blockade across the country starting Tuesday morning.
The arson incident took place around 7pm.
Two units of DEPZ fire service brought the fire under control within half an hour.
The locals said that the bus of Itihash Paribahan, which left Chandra, was supposed to go to Mirpur in Dhaka via Nabinagar. When it reached Kabirpur bus stand, miscreants set it on fire.
Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ) fire service station team leader Md Anwar Hossain, confirmed the matter.
No casualty was reported.