A bus driver has received severe burns when BNP members allegedly set two vehicles afire on Dhaka-Aricha Highway in Ashulia.
Injured, Nannu, 35, has been admitted to Ganasastha Medical College Hospital.
Ashulia police station OC Mostafa Kamal said: “BNP members set the buses afire. But, none is yet to be arrested in this connection.”
Locals said some miscreants set a stationed bus of Palash Paribahan afire on Wednesday morning, leaving the drive injured.
Later, another group of miscreants set another stationed bus afire in Jirani area in the morning.
So far, more than 100 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.
The alliance also enforced hartals during weekdays continuously since February 1.
On March 24, the opposition alliance abandoned its practice of extending by two days the three-day hartals it customarily calls on Sundays.
On Tuesday, the 20-party again called a 24-hour hartal starting at 6am Thursday.
But, the BNP-led 20-party alliance enforced blockade and hartal had little impact on the lives of the people on its 68th day, aside from a few stray incidents of violence across the country.
In the capital, city dwellers experienced traffic jams on the roads, a sign of relative normalcy.
