{"id":30370,"date":"2026-03-12T03:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T03:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/30370\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T03:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T03:33:17","slug":"six-killed-in-swiss-bus-fire-that-may-have-been-deliberate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/30370\/","title":{"rendered":"Six killed in Swiss bus fire that may have been deliberate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Investigators looking into reports that a person had \u200bpoured fuel on themselves<\/p>\n

\u00a0At least six people died in a bus fire late on \u200bTuesday in a small town in western Switzerland PHOTO: REUTERS <\/p>\n

At least six people died in a bus fire late on \u200bTuesday in a small town in western Switzerland, in \u200cwhat police said may have been caused by a deliberate act.<\/p>\n

Police said the bus became engulfed in flames on a road in Kerzers, a \u200btown in the canton of Fribourg, about 20 km (12 \u200bmiles) from the Swiss capital, Bern, after media reports \u2060that a person on the bus had set fire \u200bto themselves.<\/p>\n

“At this stage, we have elements suggesting a deliberate act \u200bby a person who was inside the bus,” said Frederic Papaux, a spokesperson for Fribourg police.<\/p>\n

Investigators were looking into reports that a person had \u200bpoured fuel on themselves, said Christa Bielmann, another local police \u200bspokesperson. It was too early to say whether the incident was terror-related, she \u200ctold \u2060a press conference.<\/p>\n

Three injured people were taken to the hospital, police said.<\/p>\n

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Passengers were seen escaping from the burning bus, panicked and injured, Papaux said, adding that no other vehicle was involved.<\/p>\n

Video after \u200bthe flames were \u200bextinguished showed \u2060the charred remains of the vehicle.<\/p>\n

Swiss President Guy Parmelin offered his condolences and said the incident \u200bwas being investigated.<\/p>\n

“It shocks and saddens me that \u200bonce again \u2060people have lost their lives in a serious fire in Switzerland,” he said in a statement on X.<\/p>\n

In January, Switzerland was \u2060rocked \u200bby a fire<\/a> in a bar in the \u200bSwiss ski resort of Crans Montana that killed 41 people and injured 115.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigators looking into reports that a person had \u200bpoured fuel on themselves \u00a0At least six people died in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[832,41,17,4293],"class_list":{"0":"post-30370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-latest","9":"tag-swiss","10":"tag-switzerland","11":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116214104280623898","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30370","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=30370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}