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A bus driver was killed after unidentified miscreants set fire to a parked local bus in the early hours of Tuesday in Faridpur.
The incident occurred around 3am at the Goalchamot New Bus Stand area in Faridpur town, leaving driver Md Kalachand, 50, dead.
Kalachand, a resident of Dignagar village in Muksedpur upazila of Gopalganj, drove a local bus operated by Kishore-Tanoy Paribahan on the Faridpur-Tekergat-Madaripur route.
According to local residents and transport workers, the bus was parked on the road in front of the bus stand, with the driver sleeping inside, when unidentified attackers set it on fire.
Fire service personnel rushed to the scene after receiving information and brought the blaze under control. Police later rescued the driver and took him to Faridpur Medical College Hospital, where doctors declared him dead.
Faridpur Fire Service Senior Station Officer Sribas Baroi said firefighters reached the spot shortly after receiving the report at around 3am and extinguished the fire.
Hospital Ward Master Md Saddam said Kalachand Sheikh was brought to the hospital dead. Preliminary findings suggest that he died from breathing difficulties caused by smoke inhalation. His body has been kept in the hospital morgue.
Faridpur Kotwali Police Station Officer-in-Charge Mahmudul Hasan said the body was at the hospital and that legal proceedings were underway to determine the cause of the fire and identify those responsible.