52 people killed in Kazakhstan bus fire
Fifty-two people were killed when a bus burst into flames
Astana - Egypt Today
Fifty-two people were killed when a bus burst into flames on a snow-covered steppe in northwestern Kazakhstan on Thursday, authorities said.
The incident happened at 10.30 a.m. local time near the village of Kalybai in the Aktobe region of the former Soviet nation in Central Asia.
Authorities said that all of the victims were citizens of neighboring Uzbekistan, according to preliminary information. Five people managed to escape the blaze.
The bus is believed to have been transporting the passengers along the 1,300 mile long Samara-Shymkent route, which is used by Uzbek construction workers to travel to and from building sites in Russia, the BBC said.
"A bus caught fire ... 55 passengers and two drivers were on board. Five passengers received medical assistance. The remainder were killed," the Kazakh emergency services ministry said in a statement carried by the AFP news agency.
Two of the five survivors are Kazakh citizens who were taking turns to drive the bus and three others are from Uzbekistan, officials said.
The cause of the fire wasn’t immediately clear but investigators suspect it was triggered by a short circuit.
Source:AFP
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