XINHUA – A highway bus yesterday caught fire in the northern Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido, with no injuries reported so far, according to Japanese authorities.
At around 5.05pm, the vehicle, an airport shuttle bus en route from Sapporo to New Chitose Airport, caught fire on the Doo Expressway near Eniwa City.
The driver called emergency services after noticing flames coming from the engine but failed to extinguish the fire, and the bus became engulfed in flames.
All 13 people on board, including 12 passengers and the driver, safely evacuated without injury, according to the fire department.
Firefighters were still working to extinguish the blaze, which caused a temporary closure of the expressway’s northbound lanes between Kitahiroshima and Eniwa interchanges.
