NARAYANGANJ: Local people set a microbus on fire as a schoolboy was injured when the microbus hit an auto-rickshaw on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj district on Monday, reports UNB.

 Quoting local people, Azizul Haque, officer-in-charge of Araihazar Police Station, said the microbus carrying some policemen hit the auto-rickshaw carrying some school students at Purinda area of the upazila, leaving a schoolboy injured.

 On receiving information, police rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control.

 The injured schoolboy was given first aid. Vehicular movement on the busy road remained suspended for some time after the accident.