Unidentified assailants have reportedly set fire to a passenger bus in Dhaka's Mirpur. "Around 7:15am, two or three men arrived and asked all passengers to get off the bus. The Alif Paribahan bus had been travelling from Mirpur towards Agargaon. Meanwhile, the fire on the bus was extinguished within 15 minutes of the incident being reported, according to Rashed Bin Khalid, a Fire Service duty officer. “We were informed that a group of young men had set fire to a bus and quickly fled the scene,” he said.

Source: bd News24 October 03, 2025 17:39 UTC