Police mentioned the bus turned engulfed in flames on a street in Kerzers, a city within the canton of Fribourg, about 20km from the Swiss capital Bern.
“At this stage, we’ve got components suggesting a deliberate act by an individual who was contained in the bus,” Frederic Papaux, a spokesperson for Fribourg police, mentioned.
Investigators had been trying into stories that an individual had poured gasoline on themselves, mentioned Christa Bielmann, one other native police spokesperson. It was too early to say whether or not the incident was terror-related, she advised a information convention.
“We now have no indication that implies we is perhaps coping with a terrorist assault,” Swiss politician Romain Collaud, a state councillor, advised the Swiss-French broadcaster RTS on Wednesday morning (native time), including that investigations are ongoing.
Three injured individuals had been taken to hospital, police mentioned. Two different individuals caught up within the blaze additionally obtained consideration however didn’t should be hospitalised.
On Tuesday night passengers had been seen escaping from the burning bus, panicked and injured, Papaux mentioned, including that no different car was concerned.
Swiss media outlet 20 Minutes mentioned it had seen a video taken on the scene wherein an injured particular person mentioned: “A person set himself on fireplace. He poured gasoline over himself after which lit himself.”
Video after the flames had been extinguished confirmed the charred stays of the car, a yellow so-called Postauto.
Swiss President Man Parmelin supplied his condolences and mentioned the incident was being investigated.
“It shocks and saddens me that when once more individuals have misplaced their lives in a critical fireplace in Switzerland,” he mentioned in a press release on X, noting investigations had been below approach.
In January, Switzerland was rocked by a fireplace in a bar within the Swiss ski resort of Crans Montana that killed 41 individuals and injured 115.
