One person was injured in Antalya, a popular tourist destination in southern Turkey, after a public bus suddenly caught fire for unknown reasons, in the third such incident in just a week reported by Turkish media.
According to local press reports, the incident occurred yesterday at around 20:30 in the Kepez district, located in the north of the city of Antalya. A public minibus travelling along Dumlupınar Avenue as it passed through the Yenidoğan neighbourhood suddenly caught fire, which quickly spread to the rest of the vehicle, which was eventually completely engulfed in flames.
A large number of emergency services immediately rushed to the scene after witnesses alerted 112. The driver of the bus, Furkan D., was injured suffering multiple burns on his body while trying to extinguish the flames, and after receiving first aid at the scene of the accident was taken to hospital. Fortunately the bus was empty at the time, so no further injuries were reported.
Despite the rapid intervention of the fire brigade, the bus was completely engulfed in flames and rendered unusable due to the catastrophic damage. Eyewitnesses recorded with their mobile phones how the fire completely consumed the vehicle. “I saw smoke and ran to where the fire was. There were two explosions in the vehicle, at first someone tried to put out the fire. It was very hot, but there was no one inside,” said a witness.
The incident is the third of its kind in just a week that has been reported in the Turkish press. Yesterday a bus caught fire in Erzurum, in eastern Turkey, and although the vehicle was loaded with passengers, they were able to escape in time without injury, while several drivers who witnessed the incident came to help them. Last weekend, Turkish media reported that another minibus loaded with passengers caught fire while driving in the Kayapınar district, west of the city of Diyarbakır, and was also rendered unusable by the fire, although again no injuries were reported.
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Pablo Gómez is a specialist in Turkey and has been editor-in-chief of Hispanatolia since 2011. He has been analysing current affairs and geopolitics in Turkey and the surrounding region since 2006.
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