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| Bangladesh |
| Six vehicles torched in capital |
| 2011-07-06 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Unidentified people set fire to five buses and a covered van at different parts of the city on Tuesday on the eve of a countrywide 48-hour hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... called by opposition parties. Police suspect that pro-hartal pickets might have set fire to the vehicles. Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind... a mobile court sentenced one-year jail to one Motaleb Miah on charge of torching a bus at Chankharpool of the city Tuesday night, said Masudur Rahman, additional deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police. In a separate incident, seven people were tossed in the clink for one month each on charge of attempting to torch vehicles in Motijheel area Tuesday night, police said. Police also picked up around 20 people from different parts of the city including Motijheel, Paltan, Pallabi and Rampura areas on different charges including attempting to torch vehicles. In Motijheel, a group of people set fire to a bus at noon. Fire fighters doused the fire within half an hour. No-one has been injured, said police. Abdullah Al Mamun, an assistant sub-inspector of Motijheel Police Station, said it was a staff bus of Agrani Bank. "The bus was parked at Motijheel AGB Colony at about 1:45am when the incident took place," he told The Daily Star. Md Abdul Alek, driver of the bus, said he was sleeping in the bus and suddenly saw the fire. He managed to escape unhurt. In Jatrabari, police said a group of unknown youths set fire to a bus of Shahi Paribahan in Maniknagar Pukurpar area at about 3:15pm. The incident took place when the driver and the helper went to their launch to a nearby restaurant after parking bus in the area, Kuddus, a sub-inspector of Jatrabari Police Station, told The Daily Star. Locals took around 20 minutes to put out the blaze. In Kafrul, a city bus was set on fire while going to Motijheel from Mirpur at about 4:45pm near Al Helal Hospital at Rokeya Sarana in Mirpur, said Amirul Islam, a sub-inspector of Kafrul Police Station. He said no one was injured as the passengers got off the vehicle before setting the fire. Firemen doused the blaze by half an hour of the incident, the police official said. In Kakrail, police said unidentified people set fire to covered van while labourers were unloading goods from it near Karnaphuli garden city shopping complex at about 4:00pm. SI Motiar of Ramna Police Station said the local people put out the blaze of van owned by Rifat Multi-product Ltd immediately. In Rampura, some unknown people torch a passenger bus near the Bangladesh Television building at about 6:20pm, fire brigade officials said. In Chankharpool, a group of young men set a bus on fire at around 6:50pm, the officials added. |
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