{"id":340169,"date":"2026-03-11T08:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/340169\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T08:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:14:08","slug":"at-least-six-dead-after-swiss-bus-catches-fire-in-suspected-deliberate-act-police-say-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/340169\/","title":{"rendered":"At least six dead after Swiss bus catches fire in suspected \u2018deliberate act\u2019, police say \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">At least six people have been killed and three others taken to hospital with severe injuries after a bus caught fire in a town west of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/switzerland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/switzerland\">Swiss<\/a> capital, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Police spokesperson Frederic Papaux said an unspecified \u201cvoluntary act\u201d could be the cause of the inferno on Tuesday evening in the town of Kerzers, about 25km  from Bern, a town in the \u200bcanton of Fribourg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cAt \u2060this stage, \u2060we \u200bhave elements suggesting a deliberate act by a person who was inside the bus,\u201d  \u200cPapaux said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The city transport bus is operated by PostBus, which is affiliated with the national postal service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cAfter rushing to the scene, rescue teams noted that the vehicle was totally engulfed in flames,\u201d the regional government said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Firefighters and police officers install barriers to secure the area where a bus caught fire in Kerzers, Switzerland. Photograph: Laurent Merlet\/Keystone via AP\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/CUQSY6KYBXL3WG635WRRHLECTY.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"534\"\/>Firefighters and police officers install barriers to secure the area where a bus caught fire in Kerzers, Switzerland. Photograph: Laurent Merlet\/Keystone via AP <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ambulance and helicopter teams ferried three injured people to hospitals, while two others were treated on site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Images from the scene on Swiss media showed flames tearing through the bus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">An investigation is under way. \u2013 AP\/Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least six people have been killed and three others taken to hospital with severe injuries after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,301,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-340169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-switzerland","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}