, June 4 -- 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.

The truck was near Chandra Polli Bidyut area around at around 4 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.

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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, t...