{"id":43340,"date":"2026-03-11T06:04:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=43340"},"modified":"2026-03-11T06:04:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:04:41","slug":"six-killed-in-swiss-bus-fire-that-may-have-been-deliberate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=43340","title":{"rendered":"Six killed in Swiss bus fire that may have been deliberate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>At least six people died in a bus fire late on \u200bTuesday in a small town in western Switzerland, in \u200cwhat police said may have been caused by a deliberate act.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the bus became engulfed in flames on a road in Kerzers, a \u200btown in the canton of Fribourg, about 20 km (12 \u200bmiles) from the Swiss capital, Bern, after media reports \u2060that a person on the bus had set fire \u200bto themselves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this stage, we have elements suggesting a deliberate act \u200bby a person who was inside the bus,&#8221; said Frederic Papaux, a spokesperson for Fribourg police.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators were looking into reports that a person had \u200bpoured fuel on themselves, said Christa Bielmann, another local police \u200bspokesperson. It was too early to say whether the incident was terror-related, she \u200ctold \u2060a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Three injured people were taken to the hospital, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Read: Iranian women&#8217;s soccer squad member changes mind on Australia asylum offer, to return home<\/p>\n<p>Passengers were seen escaping from the burning bus, panicked and injured, Papaux said, adding that no other vehicle was involved.<\/p>\n<p>Video after \u200bthe flames were \u200bextinguished showed \u2060the charred remains of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Swiss President Guy Parmelin offered his condolences and said the incident \u200bwas being investigated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It shocks and saddens me that \u200bonce again \u2060people have lost their lives in a serious fire in Switzerland,&#8221; he said in a statement on X.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Switzerland was \u2060rocked \u200bby a fire in a bar in the \u200bSwiss ski resort of Crans Montana that killed 41 people and injured 115.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least six people died in a bus fire late on \u200bTuesday in a small town in western Switzerland, in \u200cwhat police said may have been caused by a deliberate act. Police said the bus became engulfed in flames on a road in Kerzers, a \u200btown in the canton of Fribourg, about 20 km (12 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}