Nine passengers died on Wednesday night when an overnight sleeper bus caught fire near New Delhi, reports indicate.
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Emergency services believe the fire was ignited by the bus’s air conditioning unit while it was travelling on the Yamuna Expressway in Greater Noida. The driver and conductor managed to escape and have since gone missing.
A survivor recounted the panic, saying, “I was asleep when someone woke me, saying the bus was on fire. We all scrambled to get out. It was not easy—there was a lot of smoke. We somehow managed to escape.”
The police are currently investigating the incident. This tragedy adds to a concerning trend of deadly fires on buses in India.
