Cadres of the United Madhesi Front torched a passenger bus near the Ghurmikhola rivulet at Mirchaiya in Siraha district on Monday night. The Front leaders and cadres torched the bus with registration platenumber Na 5 Kha 4429 operating along the Kathmandu-Rajbiraj route. The bus was being escorted by police to its destination when it was set on fire, said Chief at the District Traffic Police Office Lahan, Police Inspector Arjun Pokhrel. Police attempted to resume the East-West highway blocked due to the indefinite banda called by the Madhesi Front by escorting the vehicles. The cadres reportedly also vandalized two passenger buses that were on police escort. A clash ensued between the protesters and the police after the torching of the bus. On Monday afternoon, police held 12 cadres and leaders engaged in enforcing banda in Mirchaiya including CA member Birendra Mahato of the Federal Socialist Forum Nepal.