Al-Marsad Newspaper: A fire broke out in a bus that was carrying male and female teachers from Al-Ahsa Governorate to their workplaces in Hafr Al-Batin Governorate this evening, Sunday.
Twenty female teachers and 3 teachers survived without any casualties, while the bus was completely destroyed by the fire. The driver and owner of the bus, Mortada Al-Hashem, also said that the fire broke out while the bus was traveling in a desert area, away from the city of Hofuf of Al-Ahsa towards the entrance to the “Urayrah” center of Al-Ahsa, about 105 kilometers, at 9:15 pm, explaining that the first spark of the fire started from The bus engine is in the “back”, according to Al-Watan.
And he continued, the passengers felt the spark, the start of the fire, and the bus captain stopped it immediately, opened the two doors for the passengers to get off, and turned off the engine, and added that all the passengers were able to get off quickly, within a period of time not exceeding two minutes, and take out all the luggage from the bus, before the tongues extended The fire spread to the entire bus, despite the attempt to control and extinguish the fire using the fire extinguishers installed in the bus, pointing out that the bus had turned into a “refining” iron pile, noting that the bus had third party liability insurance (against third parties).