Monitoring Desk
ASTANA: At least 52 people were killed in a bus fire in northwestern Kazak-hstan, the country’s Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
“There were 55 passengers and two drivers on the bus,” in the Aktobe region, Ruslan Imankulov, the ministry’s E-mergency Situations Com-mittee representative, told reporters.
“Five passengers managed to escape with injuries.”
He added that the reason for the fire was unknown.
