A total of 13 vehicles were set on fire in the past 27 hours until 9am on Thursday (November 9), during the 48-hour nationwide blockade enforced by BNP and its allies in the ongoing one-point movement.

Fire Service and Civil Defense media cell station officer Talha Bin Jasim confirmed the matter.

Five vehicles were torched in Hazaribagh, Tantibazar, Kakoli, Mirpur, and Dhanmondi areas of the capital Dhaka, three in Gazipur, one each in Khagrachhari, Bogura, and Noakhali, and two in Barishal and Barguna, according to the media cell of the Fire Service and Civil Defence.

The vehicles included seven buses, four covered vans, and two trucks, it added.

The 48-hour blockade across the country called by the BNP and its allies in the ongoing one-point movement began Wednesday (November 8) morning.

BNP previously enforced a 72-hour blockade starting October 31, following the violence centring BNP's rally on October 28.

The parties also enforced a 48-hour blockade program across the country from Sunday (November 5) morning to press home their one-point demand of immediate resignation of the ruling government.

BNP, Jamaat and like-minded parties observed the dawn to dusk countrywide hartal on October 29 in protest of the recent police action during the party's Nayapaltan rally.

BDST: 1143 HRS, NOV 09, 2023
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