{"id":324899,"date":"2026-03-11T22:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T22:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/324899\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T22:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T22:38:15","slug":"at-least-six-killed-after-bus-catches-fire-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/324899\/","title":{"rendered":"At least six killed after bus catches fire in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least six people have been killed and three others hospitalised with severe injures after a bus caught fire in a town west of the Swiss capital, police said today. <\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson Frederic Papaux of Fribourg canton, or region, said an unspecified &#8220;voluntary act&#8221; could be the cause of the fire Tuesday evening in the town of Kerzers, about 25 kilometres west of Bern, the capital.<\/p>\n<p>The regional transport bus is operated by PostBus, which is affiliated with the national postal service.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After rushing to the scene, rescue teams noted that the vehicle was totally engulfed in flames,&#8221; the regional government said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Ambulance and helicopter teams ferried three injured people with severe injuries to hospitals, while two others were treated on site, a police statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Papaux said at least six people were killed. An investigation is underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least six people have been killed and three others hospitalised with severe injures after a bus caught&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39,1745],"class_list":["post-324899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-uk-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}