location: Durgapur
notes: Four passengers, including a child, were burnt alive and charred as blockaders allegedly torched a passenger bus in Mithapukur upazila of Rangpur early Wednesday, officials said. One more victim of Wednesday's arson attack on a bus in Mithapukur Upazila in Rangpur district succumbed to his burn injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Wednesday night. With this, the death toll from the arson attack on the bus rises to five. Ten others were also critically burnt.The shocking incident of arson allack on the bus in Rangpur occurred on the ninth day of the ongoing countrywide blockade enforced by BNP-led 20-party alliance ahead of dawn-to-dusk hartal called by the alliance for today (Thursday) across the country.The hartal was called in protest against the gun attack on BNP chief's adviser Reaz Rahman in the city on Tuesday night.Talking to the FE, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Mithapukur Police Station Rabiul Alam said pickets threw a petrol bomb on the Khalil Paribahan bus at Jaigirhat on the Dhaka-Rangpur Highway at about 2:00am while the bus was going towards the capital.
target_text: location: Durgapur, fatalities: 5