At least one person was charred to death while six others suffered burns after a private luxury sleeper bus caught fire in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district in the early hours of Friday (March 13), police said. Some of the injured persons are said to be in critical condition, they said. The bus was heading to Ahmedabad from Nachna in Rajasthan when the fire erupted in the vehicle near Nenawa village in Dhanera taluka around 3.30 am. The passengers were asleep at the time, police said.
In no time, the fire engulfed the entire bus, triggering panic inside the vehicle, a Dhanera police station official said.
To escape the flames and billowing smoke, many passengers jumped out to save their lives after breaking windows. “Amid the chaos, a passenger was charred to death,” the official said. The exact cause of the fire was being ascertained, he said.
At least six passengers suffered burns and were rushed to a nearby hospital, the official said, adding that some of them are in critical condition.
(With inputs from PTI)
