Miscreants set fire to a Chiriyakhana City Paribahan bus parked in front of the National Zoo in the capital’s Mirpur area early Wednesday.
Sub-Inspector Md Ripon, duty officer at Shah Ali Police Station, confirmed the incident at 2:20am on Wednesday.
He said miscreants set fire to the bus parked beside the zoo at around 1am.
“Several teams of police are at the scene,” he added.
Rashed Bin Khaled of the Fire Service and Civil Defence control room said a fire service team reached the spot at around 1:19am after receiving information about the incident. However, the fire had already been extinguished by locals before the team arrived.
Video footage shows several Chiriyakhana City Paribahan buses parked at the location, with one of them engulfed in flames. Several buses parked beside the burning vehicle were quickly moved away.
