A teenage transport worker asleep in a parked bus was burned to death in a fire triggered by a burning mosquito coil in Khulna in the early hours of Friday.
The deceased Md Sharif, 16, was raised in an orphanage in Munshiganj鈥檚 Srinagar, according to police.
Sonadanga police station officer-in-charge Md Shafiqul Islam said that the incident occurred at about 2:00am on Friday.
The bus caught fire when helper Shariful was sleeping inside a Sundarban Paribahan bus starting a mosquito coil, he said.
鈥榃e assume that Sharif fell asleep after lighting the coil inside the bus, which caused the fire. But he could not escape the bus as the doors and windows were closed,鈥� OC Shafiqul said.
The body was sent to Khulna Medical College Hospital for autopsy, he added.
Quoting the witnesses, the OC said that the bus, which ran on the Dhaka-Khulna route, was parked inside the terminal and local people noticed a sudden fire inside the bus at about 2:00am.
They informed the Fire Service and Civil Defence, but the bus was burnt before fire service officials arrived at the scene.
The fire service officials went to the spot after getting a call at 1:45am, according to fire service control room in Khulna.
鈥楾he firefighters brought the fire under control at about 2:10am and recovered bus worker Sharif鈥檚 body,鈥� control room officer Md Rokonuzzaman said.
