Bus torched in Gazipur

Gazipur: Activists of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir set a bus afire after vandalizing it at bus-stand area of the city in support of their countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal on Monday morning, protesting the execution of death sentence of war criminal Jamaat leader Kamaruzzaman.
Fire service officials said the Jamaat-Shibir men vandalised a Nabinagar-bound bus of ‘Polash Paribahan’ and torched it in the area at about 6:30am.
At least five people were injured while they tried to get down from the bus hurriedly.
A firefighting unit from Joydebpur Fire Station doused the flame.
Mohammad Shahin Alam, station officer of the fire service station confirmed the incident.