Close shave for 45 passengers as Hyderabad-Chirala bus catches fire

Around 45 passengers of a private bus had a narrow escape in the early hours of Friday, September 2, as the driver alerted them soon after the bus caught fire. 

The bus was going from Hyderabad to Chirala in Andhra Pradesh when the fire started around 1.30 am as the bus was moving on National Highway 65 at Peddakaparthy of Chityala mandal in Nalgonda district. The bus driver said that he



stopped on the side of the road after a tyre burst, and noticed flames. “I tried to bring the flames under control but failed. I then asked the passengers to get down and removed the luggage. 

The bus then caught fire,” he told reporters. The bus left Vanasthalipuram in Hyderabad around 12.30 am, and the tyre burst around 1.30 am when it was around 4 km away from Chityala, the driver said.