{"id":646841,"date":"2026-03-11T01:23:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/646841\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T01:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:23:17","slug":"switzerland-bus-fire-at-least-six-dead-five-injured-in-switzerland-bus-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/646841\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland Bus Fire: At least six dead, five injured in Switzerland bus fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/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":3,"featured_media":646842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[274898,274894,274896,274895,274897,50,7207,274900,274893,274899,103],"class_list":["post-646841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-bus-accident-switzerland","tag-emergency-services-switzerland","tag-fribourg-canton-news","tag-kerzers-fire","tag-local-media","tag-news","tag-police","tag-swiss-bus-fire","tag-switzerland-bus-fire","tag-toi","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116207930907810226","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}