Dhaka, Sept. 20 -- A passenger bus has been set on fire on the road outside the Institute of Child and Mother Health in Dhaka's Matuail.

Fire Service and Civil Defence duty officer Rafi Al Faruk said they received information about the fire around 1am on Sunday.

"Two of our units reached the scene around 1:15am and brought the fire under control at 1:20am," he said.

No casualties were reported in the fire, he added.

Police also reported hand-bomb explosions on a road beside the mausoleums of three leaders of Dhaka University and on the road beneath the Secretariat Metro Station around midnight.

Earlier, around 10:30pm, a hand-bomb exploded on a platform at Kamalapur Railway Station, according to railway police.

An explosion was also...