At around 4 am, July 22, an overloaded bus with 35 seats but loaded with 47 persons caught fire, when it drove to Xinyang, Henan, on the Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway. The local authorities rescued 6 passengers out, but 41 died in the fire. The injured were immediately transferred to the hospital, and one was in critical condition. The cause of the fire is under investigation and

At approxiately 7:45 in the morning of July 26, a shuttle bus in a license plate number "渝A16640" caught itself on fire when it drove through a road near Hi-Tech Industrial Zone, in Chongqing. The driver tried to control the fire himself but failed. He then called the police. The firefighters serving at Hi-Tech Industrial Zone arrived soon and extinguish the fire in seveal minutes, but

Several shuttle bus blazes has aroused citizens' concern over bus security since July 1. China Buzz has ever reported a bus in Beijing caught itself on fire on July 6 due to the continued high temperature weather in Beijing those days. It was lucky there were no casualties and injuries as the passengers were evacuated quickly that time. On July 21, at approximately 4 p.m.,

On July 6, at approximately 8:30 am., a bus with 20 more passengers caught itself on fire near the East 3rd Ring Road in Beijing. It was lucky that there were no casualties and injuries as the passengers were quickly evacuated. It was said that the blaze originated in the fuel tube of the bus due to the continued high temperature weather in Beijing these