25 Killed in Bus Blaze in Chengdu

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This picture shows a big fire is engulfing a bus on the street of Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province on Friday, June 5, 2009. [Photo: ]

The death toll from a bus blaze on Friday in the city of Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, rose to 25, government authorities said.

Among the 76 injured, six were in critical condition, said Mao Zhixiong, spokesman for the Chengdu city government Friday afternoon at a news conference.

All the injured were sent to the Chengdu No.2 People's Hospital and the Chengdu Army General Hospital.

The fire began at 8:02 a.m. when the No.9 bus, with license plate Chuan A 49567, was on its way from Tianhui Township to downtown Chengdu, and caught fire under the Chuanshan Viaduct, said Mao.

Sichuan's Communist Party chief Liu Qibao and provincial governor Jiang Jufeng both ordered "all-out efforts to treat the injured".

Tao Shouliang, a survivor, said he was standing behind the driver when he saw thick smoke filling in the bus.

After passers-by smashed the windows from the outside, he first threw his granddaughter out and then jumped out of the bus, with some of his hair burnt, Tao told Xinhua.

But his wife failed to escape immediately and was injured. She is being treated in hospital.

"There was a strange smell in the bus when it was running on Chuanshan Viaduct, but the driver refused to stop and said the smell should be dealt with after the bus was off the viaduct," said a relative of a wounded passenger.


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成都公交车燃烧致25人遇难76人受伤

2009年6月5日早上，四川成都川陕立交下桥处发生公交车发生燃烧，到目前已经造成25人死亡，76人受伤，事故正在进一步调查之中。

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