Bangladesh election: Dhaka-bound Benapole Express train was set on fire in Sayedabad on Friday night. “We have recovered five bodies,” police commander Khandaker Al Moin said.
Five people were killed in Bangladesh after a passenger train caught fire Friday, with police suspecting an arson attack during unrest ahead of national elections boycotted by the opposition.
At least four passengers of a train were killed and scores of others injured in a suspected arson attack on Friday in Dhaka, police said, ahead of Bangladesh’s national elections at the weekend, which are being boycotted by a major opposition group. Firefighters retrieved the charred bodies of the passengers from inside the burnt-out carriages of the Benapole Express train, Khandaker Al Moin of the Rapid Action Battalion unit of the police said at the scene. Passengers noticed the fire only a fe