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At least six people have been killed and five others have been injured after a fire broke out on a passenger bus in Kerzers in western Switzerland, according to officials. Authorities said the fire may have been set deliberately, while local media reported that a man may have set himself on fire inside the bus.<\/p>\n

The fire broke out at about 6:25 p.m. Tuesday on Murtenstrasse in Kerzers, according to cantonal police<\/a> in Fribourg, a western Swiss canton near Bern.<\/p>\n

At a news conference, Fribourg police said at least six people were killed and four passengers were injured, according to Swiss public broadcaster SRF. Police also reported a fifth injured person, a paramedic. SRF said three of the injured are in critical condition.<\/p>\n

Authorities said the cause remains under investigation, but police believe one person was involved and that the fire appears to be deliberate.<\/p>\n

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Blick<\/a>, a Swiss news outlet, reported that video from the scene appeared to show a soot-covered man saying in Albanian that a man had poured gasoline on himself and set himself on fire inside the bus. Other eyewitnesses gave similar accounts to the outlet, but police had not confirmed those reports.<\/p>\n

The bus involved was a PostBus, part of Switzerland\u2019s yellow postal bus network that provides public transportation across the country, including in smaller towns and rural areas.<\/p>\n

The fire comes a little over two months after another deadly blaze in Switzerland. On Jan. 1, 41 people were killed and 116 others were injured in a fire at Le Constellation bar in the ski resort town of Crans-Montana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least six people have been killed and five others have been injured after a fire broke out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17817,2016,2036,17818,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-29312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-bus-accident","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-fire","11":"tag-kerzers-switzerland","12":"tag-switzerland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116207140373497079","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}