{"id":38113,"date":"2013-05-25T16:53:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T13:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=38113"},"modified":"2013-05-25T16:53:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T13:53:05","slug":"school-bus-catches-fire-in-pakistan-16-children-killed-38113","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/school-bus-catches-fire-in-pakistan-16-children-killed-38113\/","title":{"rendered":"School bus catches fire in Pakistan, 16 children killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38115\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38115\" style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-38115 \" alt=\"School van blaze kills 16 children in Pakistan.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Schoolvan-Pakistan-Nationalturk-25-480x360.jpg\" width=\"432\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Schoolvan-Pakistan-Nationalturk-25-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Schoolvan-Pakistan-Nationalturk-25-280x210.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Schoolvan-Pakistan-Nationalturk-25.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">School van blaze kills 16 children in Pakistan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>A school bus caught fire in Pakistan\u2019s Gujarat city on Saturday, causing death of 16 school children and a teacher.<\/h1>\n<p>Islamabad, May 25\/Nationalturk- \u00a0In a tragic incident, a school bus caught fire in Pakistan\u2019s Gujarat city on Saturday, causing death of 16 school children and a teacher.<\/p>\n<p>Police said van, which was carrying school children of Rajayki, Chak Khagha and Mangowal villages to Jinnah Public School in Gujarat, about 112 kilometres (70 miles) north of the eastern city on Lahore, caught fire this morning due to alleged short circuit next to a leaking petrol tank.<\/p>\n<p>The van was carrying 24 children aged between 5 &#8211; 15 to a private school in Gujarat and was up in flames. There were hue and cries all over. \u201c16 children and a female teacher were killed in the fire while seven other children were injured in the blaze, \u00a0which completely destroyed the vehicle,\u201d a police officer said.<\/p>\n<p>TV footage showed the bus was charred by the fire that spread rapidly.<\/p>\n<h2>Fire was caused by a spark<\/h2>\n<p>The police officer said the fire was apparently caused by a spark when driver of the dual-fuel van switched from gas to petrol. \u201cThe fuel gas cylinder was intact. We have registered a case and started investigations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the death toll may go up as some children have sustained critical injuries. \u201cDoctors have termed\u00a0 condition of some of the injured as life threatening\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said driver of the vehicle fled from the spot after it caught fire. \u201cPolice have launched a massive manhunt to track him down,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>They said bodies of some of the victims were unrecognisable and parents had demanded DNA testing to claim their children.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Faiz Ahmad \/ NationalTurk Pakistan News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A school bus caught fire in Pakistan\u2019s Gujarat city on Saturday, causing death of 16 school children and a teacher. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,118,85,101,14],"tags":[52278,52275,52281,52284,14231,12970,52282,10707,52283,52272,52277,13982,52279,52285,52276,41524,636,52274,52270,52273,46769,39329,52271,48771,52286,52280],"class_list":["post-38113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-media-news","category-politics","category-world","tag-caught-fire","tag-chak-khagha","tag-charred-by-fire","tag-critical-injuries","tag-death-toll","tag-dna-testing","tag-dual-fuel-van","tag-fire","tag-gas-to-petrol","tag-gujarat-city","tag-jinnah-public-school","tag-lahore","tag-leaking-petrol-tank","tag-life-threatening","tag-mangowal-villages","tag-massive-manhunt","tag-pakistan","tag-rajayki","tag-school-bus","tag-school-children","tag-short-circuit","tag-teacher","tag-tragic-incident","tag-tv-footage","tag-unrecognisable","tag-up-in-flames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}