DHAKA: On Saturday, January 6, the day before the main opposition party’s boycotted general election, authorities reported that at least four people, including a child, had died in what they believed to have been an arson attack.
When the flames spread to four divisions of the Dhaka-bound Benapole Express around 9 p.m. on Friday, eight people were injured in addition to the deaths.  ,
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( BNP ), which has abstained from three elections, accuses Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League of using the polls as a ruse to legitimize an election that will give her party four straight terms.
Hasina accuses the opposition group of encouraging anti-government protests that have rocked Dhaka since late October and killed at least 10 people in the South Asian nation after rejecting BNP needs to retire and hand over power to an impartial power to move the vote.
Four people were killed when protesters set a station on fire last month as part of an opposition-called nationwide hit.
Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, a top BNP standard, claimed that Friday’s event on the Benapole Express was “unquestionably an act of destroy and brutality against humanity,” and that the ruling party was to blame.
Party leaders from the Awami League were not quickly reachable for comment.