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Bus catches fire in Belfast

Published Tuesday, 24 January 2012

More than 20 passengers had to be evacuated after a bus caught fire in Belfast.

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The double-decker bus caught fire in the York Street area of the city at around 7pm on Tuesday.

The blaze began in the rear of the vehicle. It is believed a technical problem may have started the fire.

No one was injured in the incident, and passengers were all led away to safety.

The fire was brought under control by the Fire and Rescue Service.

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Comments

5 Comments

MattOhare in Lurgan wrote (118 days ago):

I do wish local news shows would do some follow up on accidents involving Translink. If this is like the double deck bus that overturned in front of Belfast Central station last year, we'll never hear about this again. I don't recall the Newry bus that crashed into the wall of the Great Victoria Railway station ever making the news either.

richard in lisburn wrote (119 days ago):

I was able to get 39 seconds of vidio as my bus driver took all aboard his coach to finish at euorpa, underneath burst into flames as we wer pulling away, 250.000 wow

Dale in Belfast wrote (119 days ago):

shuda said on the fone 2 police that the buses tax disc was outta date..they wuda been out in half the time.

dad in belfast wrote (119 days ago):

At least the Fire Brigade turned up on time.

andypandy in belfast campus wrote (119 days ago):

thanks to the university of ulster security staff who sealed off the road before p.s.n.i were on site.. creative thinking from the rapid response team !

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