Satkhira Correspondent

A passengerless bus standing on the road was burnt by miscreants in Satkhira. The incident took place in front of Satkhira Government High School on Friday at around 8:30 am.

Kabir Hossain, the helper of the bus that caught fire, said that the bus (Sylhet-J-11-0729) was kept on the road in front of the government high school at the Katia Amtala intersection of the Satkhira-Khulna road on Thursday night to go to Bagerhat. A truck was also standing in front of the bus.

He was cleaning the bus with water around half past eight on Friday morning. Leaving the door open, he went to fetch water from the nearby tap in a bucket. After a while, he saw the fire in the bus and rushed. 80 percent of the seats inside the bus, including the engine, were burnt before the locals extinguished the fire with water.

Golam Morshed, the vice president of Satkhira Sadar Upazila Awami League and the outgoing member secretary of the district bus minibus owner association, Golam Morshed, said that the election of the district bus owner association will be held on December 3. A mosquito coil placed in the middle of it, or by the staff of the bus, or a shorted circuit may cause a fire. However, the police will be able to investigate the root cause of the fire.

Satkhira Sadar police station sub-inspector Ismail Hossain said that an investigation is underway to find out the cause of the bus fire.

Incidentally, on the occasion of the death anniversary of former minister Tariqul Islam, a memorial meeting is scheduled to be held on the initiative of the district BNP at Katia Niribili Resort at 4 pm on Friday.