Mangaluru, Apr 2: In what could have been a major catastrophe, a Bengaluru-bound KSRTC bus went up in flames all of a sudden near near Gunday in Shiradi Ghat on Saturday.
However, the driver’s presence of mind saved lives of all passengers on board the ill-fated bus. The incident occurred around noon, according to police personnel of Sakleshpur rural police station.
The bus, which was carrying 30 passengers from Dharamsthala to Bengaluru started billowing smoke in its engine, when it reached Shirady Ghat.
Alerted by this, bus driver immediately asked every passenger to alight from the vehicle. As soon as all got down out of the bus, the entire bus just parked on the shoulder of the road went up in flames. Firefighters and KSRTC officials were called in to douse the fire and to find out reason for the accident.
Soon after the incident, video of the bus going up in flame started circulating in social media platforms. The callous manner in which many vehicles drove past the burning bus even as passengers who had alighted from the bus warned them not to do so, told its own story.
Vehicles that negotiated the billowing smoke emanating from the bus also risked ramming in to oncoming vehicles.
One voice in the video clearly hinted at the lurking danger in case the diesel tank of the bus were to explode.
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