{"id":30262,"date":"2026-03-11T23:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/30262\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T23:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:56:18","slug":"switzerland-bus-fire-at-least-six-dead-five-injured-in-switzerland-bus-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/30262\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland Bus Fire: At least six dead, five injured in Switzerland bus fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/-.jpg\" alt=\"At least six dead, five injured in Switzerland bus fire\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> At least six people were killed and several others injured after a bus caught fire Tuesday evening (local time) in the town of Kerzers, known in French as Chi\u00e8tres, in Fribourg canton in western Switzerland, police said.Emergency services launched a major rescue operation at the scene, with local media reporting that a helicopter had been deployed to assist responders. The cause of the blaze was not immediately known. Video shared by local media showed the bus engulfed in flames, while a resident reported seeing a thick column of smoke rising from the area.The TOI could not verify the authenticity of the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least six people were killed and several others injured after a bus caught fire Tuesday evening (local&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18308,18305,18306,17924,18307,72,17856,17,17877,18309],"class_list":{"0":"post-30262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-bus-accident-switzerland","9":"tag-emergency-services-switzerland","10":"tag-fribourg-canton-news","11":"tag-kerzers-fire","12":"tag-local-media","13":"tag-police","14":"tag-swiss-bus-fire","15":"tag-switzerland","16":"tag-switzerland-bus-fire","17":"tag-toi"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116213251021180940","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30262","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=30262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}