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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 (BCL) 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, according to a bdnews24.com report.
“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”.
However, another Chhatra League activist named Rafsan managed to flee.