6 held over deadly bus inferno
By Li Xinran |
July 26, 2011, Tuesday
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Six people have been detained by police in connection with the fire that claimed 41 lives on a long-distance bus in central China's Henan Province last Friday.
Police said the fire was caused by flammable chemicals illegally taken onboard, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.
The double-decker bus was also overloaded as it was built to carry 35 passengers but there were 47 people on board when the fire broke out at about 4am.
The bus was heading for Changsha, capital of Hunan Province, from Weihai City in Shandong Province. Of the six survivors, one remains in a serious condition.
One of the survivors, 47-year-old driver Zou Jianzhou, told China News Service on Sunday that he thought one of the passengers had taken something flammable onto the bus.
Zou said the fire started at the rear of the bus and immediately spread to the front.
He guessed that the flammable item was stored near the engine at the back of the bus.
After the accident, unidentified material suspected of having caused the fire was sent to the Ministry of Public Security for investigation.
Earlier reports said the bus had left Weihai empty and stopped several times along the way to pick up passengers.
Safety checks were unlikely to have been carried out since those procedures were usually in place at bus stations.
Police said the fire was caused by flammable chemicals illegally taken onboard, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.
The double-decker bus was also overloaded as it was built to carry 35 passengers but there were 47 people on board when the fire broke out at about 4am.
The bus was heading for Changsha, capital of Hunan Province, from Weihai City in Shandong Province. Of the six survivors, one remains in a serious condition.
One of the survivors, 47-year-old driver Zou Jianzhou, told China News Service on Sunday that he thought one of the passengers had taken something flammable onto the bus.
Zou said the fire started at the rear of the bus and immediately spread to the front.
He guessed that the flammable item was stored near the engine at the back of the bus.
After the accident, unidentified material suspected of having caused the fire was sent to the Ministry of Public Security for investigation.
Earlier reports said the bus had left Weihai empty and stopped several times along the way to pick up passengers.
Safety checks were unlikely to have been carried out since those procedures were usually in place at bus stations.
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