It was Fifty two people were killed Thursday when the bus they were travelling on caught fire in northwestern Kazakhstan, the emergency services ministry said in a statement. Bus catch the fire and fifty two passenger along with two drivers were in the bus when this incident occur in Kazakhstan.
"On January 18 at 10:30 am (0430 GMT), a bus caught fire, nearly 52 passengers and two drivers were on board. Five passengers received medical assistance. The remainder were killed," the ministry said, without elaborating on the cause of the fire. A bus caught fire in a remote part of Kazakhstan today, killing 52 citizens of neighbouring Uzbekistan, the Kazakh Interior Ministry said on Thursday 18th January.
The bus was travelling along a road in Kazakhstan's north-western Aktau region that links the Russian city of Samara to Shymkent, a city in southern Kazakhstan close to the Uzbek border. It was unclear in which direction the bus had been travelling, but the route is widely used to transport Uzbek migrant workers to and from Russia where they often take on work on building sites. Only five people managed to escape the burning vehicle, the interior ministry's emergencies department said in a statement.
