A half-packed passenger bus has been set afire by unidentified miscreants in the Old Dhaka's Tantibazar area on Friday morning.
According to the survivors, the Abdullahpur-bound bus of Victor Paribahan came under the arson attack at Tantibazar intersection around 8:30am.
However, the passengers managed to get down from it immediately after the attack was crried out, said police control room officials.
The BNP-led 20-party alliance has been enforcing nationwide non-stop roads and waterways blockade since January 5.
So far, more than 35 people have died and scores have been injured in different parts of the country in violence, which mostly involved arson attacks.
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 blockade has been celled on January 5 in protest against the confinement of the party chief Khaleda Zia.
Khaleda Zia has 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.
The relaxed blockade is underway across the country amid sporadic incidents of violence, arson attacks, vandalism and arrests of BNP members.
