A teenage helper of a bus driver was killed in his sleep inside his bus as unidentified miscreants set fire to the parked vehicle in Deila area of Demra in Bangladesh capital Dhaka early Sunday.
Another bus was set on fire at the south gate of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque in the capital in the morning.
The name of the 18-year-old deceased could be known as Md Nazim.
The news of torching the buses came on the day when the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party has been enforcing countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal and the ruling Awami League is scheduled to hold ‘peace rallies’ across bangladesh to counter the hartal.
Fire Service and Civil Defence headquarters’ control room duty officer Ashraful Halim said that the fire service personnel rushed to the spot immediately after occurring the fire at about 3:30am and brought the fire under control.
He said that they came to know that Nazim used to work as the helper of the driver of a bus of Achhim Paribahan.
Nazim had been sleeping inside the parked bus by the side of a road in Deila area at night when it was set on fire.
He said that the fire service members recovered his body from the bus after dousing the fire and handed it over to police for taking next legal steps.
Another duty officer of fire service control room, Ershad Hossain, said that they came to know about the fire at a Shikar Paribahan bus at the south gate of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque at about 8:02am and two firefighting units rushed to the spot and doused the fire.
He said that they were yet to know about the cause of the fire.
