Moving truck catches fire on Dhaka-Tangail Highway

A fire swept through a moving truck on the Dhaka-Tangail Highway in Kaliakair upazila of Gazipur district on Wednesday, but no casualties were reported, reports UNB.
The truck was near Chandra Polli Bidyut area around at around 04:00 pm when the fire happened and was soon engulfed by it.
On information, a firefighting unit rushed to the spot and managed to bring the fire under control in about 30 minutes.
Md Iftekhar Rayhan, station officer of the Kaliakair Fire Service and Civil Defense said that the fire might have originated from a gas leak beneath the truck during the traffic standstill.
The mini-truck had earlier transported cattle from Rangpur to Dhaka, he said.
After unloading the cattle in Dhaka, the truck was returning to Rangpur with some passengers on board.
The vehicle got stuck in traffic when it reached near the Chandra Polli Bidyut area of the upazila.
At one stage, flames ignited in the truck's engine due to an underground gas leak at the spot. The driver, his assistant and passengers managed to escape the truck quickly and narrowly avoided injury.
A severe traffic jam was created on both sides of the highway following the fire.