BRTC bus catches fire in Kuril Bishwa Road

Senior Staff Reporter Published: 8 November 2024, 03:46 PM
BRTC bus catches fire in Kuril Bishwa Road

A fire broke out in a double-decker bus of state-owned BRTC in Dhaka’s Kuril Bishwa Road area on Friday afternoon.

The incident occurred around 1:40pm, said Rashed Bin Khaled, control room duty officer at the Fire Service and Civil Defence.

Later, two units of the firefighters from Kurmitola Fire Station reached the spot and brought the blaze under control, he said.

However, the causes of the fire could not be known yet, the official added.

Khilkhet police station’s sub-inspector (SI) Shahjahan said they were talking to the locals to know how the bus caught fire.

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