At least 50 people were feared to have burned to death on Saturday after fire engulfed a bus in the eastern Bangladeshi town of Comilla, police said.
“The bus with nearly 60 people on board hit an auto rickshaw causing its gas cylinder to explode. A fire started and swept through the bus,” said Mohammed Kamal Uddin, district police inspector in Comilla.
“We think only six people managed to escape the fire and the rest we fear were burned to death,” he added.
Uddin said the accident happened on a busy highway near the town.
Police were still at the scene attempting to remove the bodies from the bus, he said.
“The bodies have been burned beyond recognition. A big crowed has gathered and the situation is very tense,” a witness told Agence France-Presse.
The condition of the survivors was not immediately known. — AFP