Miscreants set fire to a moving passenger bus and hay-laden truck in Gazipur on Monday.
A bus was set on fire on the Chandra-Navinagar road at Jirani Bazar around 9am, and a hay-laden truck was set on fire in front of the Chandra Forest office in Kaliakair upazila around 4am.
According to bus passengers and police sources, the bus was heading towards Dhaka from Chandra of Kaliakair upazila. When the bus reached the Jirani Bazar area, smoke started coming from the back of the bus. When the driver stopped the bus, the passengers hurriedly got off. Later people from the area came and put out the fire. Several seats inside the bus were burnt.
Kashimpur police station Officer-in-Charge (acting) Syed Rafiul Karim said a quarter is setting fire to buses in the area. “We are trying to catch them.”
Kaliakair police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Akbar Ali Khan said the hay-laden truck was coming towards Dhaka from North Bengal. When the truck came in front of the Chandra Forest office on the Dhaka-Tangail highway, miscreants set it on fire. It burnt most of the hay on the truck.
Kaliakair Fire Service Station officer Iftekhar Chowdhury Raihan said a fire service unit extinguished the fire in 30 minutes.
Last Sunday morning, a rod-laden truck was set on fire in the Goalbathan area of Kaliakair upazila and a car was set on fire in the Chandra area on the same day around 8pm. Apart from this, three vehicles were set on fire on the Chandra-Navinagar road in a week.
