Nis Ekspres bus burns, billows of thick black smoke: Passenger claims tire under her caught fire

One of the passengers said that "the tire exploded"

Photo: Telegraf reader

A Nis-Ekspres bus caught fire today at around 9:30 am on the 63rd kilometer of the E-75 highway, and the fire is currently being extinguished.

The Subotica Police Administration told our portal that firefighters were sent out to intervene, and that all passengers are safe.

Photos from the scene show that the bus caught fire, and that the blaze swallowed the vehicle as thick smoke billowed from it.

A Telegraf reader who was on the bus says that the tire above which she was sitting caught fire and then exploded.

"Because a bus that caught fire on the E-75 highway between Mali Idjos and Backa Topola, in the direction of Novi Sad, traffic is currently suspended," the public company Roads of Serbia announced on Wednesday morning.

(Telegraf.rs)