Pro-blockade activists in Rajshahi torched four paddy-laden trucks and a medicine carrying microbus ahead of the 72-hour countrywide blockade that started from 6am on Saturday.
Police sources said the vehicles were torched around 4am at Dewanpara on the Dhaka-Rajshahi Highway. However, there was no report of casualty, reports BSS.
Abdul Majid, officer-in-charge of Motiher police station, said four Kusthia-bound trucks carrying paddy and a microbus laden with medicines were burned down after the outfits threw petrol bombs at the vehicles.
The vehicles were torched after opposition supporters blocked the highway with logs. On information, the fire fighters went to the spot and had put out the fire.
Barrister Mahbubur Rahman, commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police, said no more destruction and sabotage would be tolerated centring the blockade.
