EGN NEWS DESK
BANGKOK — A bus carrying younger college students with their lecturers caught hearth in suburban Bangkok on Tuesday, with 25 of these on board feared dead, officers and rescuers stated.
The bus was carrying 44 passengers from central Uthai Thani province for a faculty journey in Ayutthaya and Nonthaburi provinces, Transport Minister Suriya Jungrungruengkit advised reporters on the scene.
Videos posted on social media confirmed all the bus engulfed in hearth with enormous plumes of black smoke pouring out because it stood on the facet of the highway. Bodies have been nonetheless contained in the bus hours after the fireplace.
The college students on the bus have been reported to be in elementary and junior highschool.
Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul stated officers couldn’t but verify the variety of fatalities as a result of they’d not completed investigating the scene, however based mostly on the variety of survivors, he stated 25 persons are feared dead.
He stated the motive force survived however appeared to have fled and couldn’t but be discovered.
Thai media reviews and rescuers stated it was heading to Nonthaburi when the fireplace began round midday in Pathum Thani province, a northern suburb of the capital.
A rescuer on the scene advised Suriya that the fireplace probably began after one of many tires exploded and the car scraped towards a highway barrier.
Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra provided her condolences in a submit on social media platform X, saying the federal government would maintain medical bills and compensate the victims’ households.
Rescue group Hongsakul Khlong Luang 21 posted on its Facebook web page that they discovered not less than 10 our bodies on the bus. The group stated not less than 19 individuals survived the fireplace.
