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52 killed in bus fire in Kazakhstan

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.

The Frontier Post

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