2 BRTC buses torched in Rajshahi

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2 BRTC buses torched in Rajshahi

Shawdesh desk:

Unidentified criminals set two stationary buses of Bangladesh Road Transport and Corporation (BRTC) on fire at Rajshahi Truck Terminal in the city’s Amchattar area on Sunday during the countrywide daylong hartal enforced by Hefazat-e-Islam.

Senior Station officer of Fire Service and Civil Defense of Rajshahi Abdur Rauf said the criminals set a bus of BRTC on fire around 6:30 am and the fire spread to another stationary bus of BRTC.

On information, fire fighters rushed to the spot and extinguished the blaze.

However, no causality was reported till the filling of this report.

Saiful Islam Khan, officer-in-charge of Shah Makhdum Police Station, said police are investigating the incident. The countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal enforced by Hefazat-e-Islam protesting police action on their anti-Modi processions in Dhaka, Chattogram and other districts is underway on Sunday.

Hefazat-e-Islam announced the day long countrywide hartal at a press briefing at Purana Paltan in the capital on Friday night.

They also held nationwide demonstrations on Saturday.