Flames rise high as a bus rams an octane-laden lorry parked at a filling station beside the Dhaka-Tangail highway at Guilla of Basila, Tangail.Photo: Mirza Shakil Traffic movement on the Dhaka-Tangail highway remained suspended for nearly four hours after a lorry carrying octane caught fire on the premises of a highway-adjacent filling station at Basail upazila yesterday. The fire broke out after
a Dina Enterprise bus hit the lorry on the premises of Nahid Filling Station around 8:15am, said Mohammad Abu Zafar, assistant director of Tangail Fire Service and Civil Defence. The bus driver escaped and the passengers got down from the vehicle immediately after the accident, said Delwar Hossain, officer-in-charge of Basail Police Station. The fire immediately spread through the bus and a nearby covered van of BD Foods Ltd which was parked there, added Zafar. Hundreds of vehicles remained stranded for hours on the busy highway due to the fire. Photo: Mirza Shakil The incident led to around 20-kilometre tailbacks on both the direction of the highway, causing immense sufferings to hundreds of passengers, said Humayun Kabir, officer-in-charge of Gorai Highway Police Station. On information, eight firefighting units rushed to the spot and doused the flames completely around 11:30am, said firefighter Zafar. The octane-lorry, the bus and the covered van were totally engulfed in flames but the filling station was not damaged, reports our Tangail correspondent. Traffic movement on the highway became normal around 12noon, said OC Humayun. Advertisement Mohammad Ali, the filling station owner, said the accident happened when the lorry with 900 litres of octane was offloading the fuel onto the station. “Some 10 to 12 people were injured when the bus passengers were trying to get down from the vehicle immediately after the accident” he added. Firefighter Zafar however said they saw none of the victims on their arrival there.
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