Two more parked buses set on fire in Savar and Dhamrai, sabotage suspected

Two more buses parked in separate places in Savar and Dhamrai were set on fire. The incidents took place late on Monday night. No casualties were reported.

Jahangir Alam, senior station officer of the Savar Fire Service, confirmed the information at around 8am on Tuesday.

A bus parked in front of the Dhamrai upazila land office caught fire at around 1am on Monday night, and a Savar Paribahan bus caught fire at 2:08am in the Moylar Mor area of Savar.

According to the Dhamrai Fire Service, it received news of the fire in the bus parked in front of the upazila land office at around 1am. Two units reached the spot and brought the fire under control at around 1:30am.

Al-Amin Khan, station officer of the Dhamrai Fire Service, said the fire caused damage of about 300,000 taka to the bus. The initial suspicion is that the bus was set on fire with the intention of sabotage.

Then, at 2:08am, the Fire Service received news of a fire in a Savar Paribahan bus at Moylar Mor in the Savar municipal area. Two units brought the fire under control at 2:33am.

Jahangir Alam, senior station officer of the Savar Fire Service, said a bus caught fire at night in the Moylar Mor area and two Fire Service units managed to bring it under control. Around 15 to 20 buses were parked together there.

He said the initial suspicion is that saboteurs set fire to the bus.

The fires in parked buses at two places on the same night have caused concern in the area. In both incidents, the Fire Service reached the spot quickly and brought the fire under control.

Although there was no loss of life, the bus in Dhamrai was badly damaged. It is not yet known who was behind the incidents.