New Delhi: A DTC bus ferrying 35 students to
a city school caught fire in east Delhi this morning, injuring
the driver and conductor of the vehicle.
The 35 students and a teacher of Evergreen School
travelling in the bus escaped unhurt when the vehicle caught
fire in New Ashok Nagar at around 8 am, a senior police
official said.
The driver and the conductor of the bus suspected some
leakage and got down from the bus to inspect it. There was
some kind of a little blast following which the bus caught
fire, School Principal Priyanka Gulati said.
"Our teacher, who was in the bus, took out the students.
No child was hurt in the incident," she said.
The injured driver and conductor were rushed to a
Dharamshila hospital.
Police suspect that fire broke out due to a gas leakage
as the bus runs on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG).
Dinesh Chandra, the bus conductor who was admitted in
the hospital, said he managed to alert the students but could
not save himself from fire.
"I got a feeling that the gas was leaking. I went to
check and immediately told the children to run. While they
managed to get out of the bus, I and the driver got stuck in
the fire," he said.
PTI
First Published: Thursday, November 26, 2009, 21:38