Tour bus burned, all 44 passengers safe

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Fourty-four passengers on board a tour bus heading from Skudai, Johor, to Kuala Lumpur escaped unhurt when the vehicle caught fire.

Sepang District Police chief ACP Wan Kamarul Azran Wan Yusof in a statement said all the passengers and the bus driver managed to get off the bus in time. "The bus, however, was completely burnt and the roof of the UPM toll booth also caught fire," he said.Wan Kamarul said investigations revealed that the incident occurred due to a clutch failure.

"At the time, a passenger shouted that there was a fire at the back of the bus, and the driver then noticed the fire raging through the rearview mirror," he said, adding that the fire was doused by the Serdang Fire and Rescue Department within an hour after arriving at the scene at 6.26 am. Meanwhile, PLUS in a statement said that it had reopened the exit lanes at the UPM intersection at 11 am following the incident.

 

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