Published : 20 Jul 2025, 07:11 PM
Updated : 21 Aug 2026, 01:32 PM
Police have reportedly arrested a man planning to torch a bus on the Dhaka-Mawa Highway in the Shyampur Thana area.
The arrestee, 22-year-old Siam Sarkar, is an activist of the Kadamtali Thana unit of the banned Bangladesh Chhatra League group, according to the authorities.
He was arrested early on Sunday morning during a raid conducted in the Khandaker Road area of the highway, said Shafiqul Islam, chief of Shyampur Police Station.
“A knife and a bottle of octane were recovered from his possession,” he added.
In a statement, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police said that a team from the Shyampur Model Police Station went to the scene based on a tip-off and caught Siam “as he was fleeing”. Another Chhatra League activist named Rafsan managed to flee.
The DMP added that Siam had confessed to attempting to set fire to a bus in the Shyampur area along with the absconding Rafsan “with the intent of sabotage”.
