At least ten buses of N Mallik Paribahan and several shops were gutted in a fire that broke out at the Bandura bus stand in Nawabganj upazila on Wednesday.
Sirajul Islam, officer-in-charge of Nawabganj police station, said the fire originated at a waste dumping ground after someone lit the fire on rubbish piled there.
Immediately, the fire broke out to a nearby machine oil shop and then engulfed the buses parked at the station around 10:30am.
On information, three firefighting units rushed to the spot and extinguished the blaze after one and a half hours of frantic effort.