Shawdesh Desk:

A group of people set fire to two covered vans on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Salna in Gazipur city early Thursday while the country was witnessing the second day of the ongoing 48-hour countrywide blockade called by the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies.

No casualty was reported.

Abdus Samad, station officer of Gazipur Fire Service, said that the blockade supporters, in a private car and motorbikes, intercepted the two cotton-carrying covered vans at about 5:30am at Salna and set those on fire by pouring petrol on them.

On information, two firefighting units rushed to the spot and doused the fire.