Fire Engulfs Travel Agent’s Bus Parked At Airport
By Azlan Othman, James Kon & Rosli Abidin Yahya

Bandar Seri Begawan - A bus owned by Sunshine Tour & Travel parked in front of the arrival hall of the Brunei International Airport caught fire yesterday noon.

The fire started at the back of the 22-seater mid-sized Mitsubishi bus bearing plate number BL10.

Mr Akhlak, the Indian driver, claimed that the bus engine was switched off when the fire started.

Four members of the public found fire extinguishers, but the blaze was too big to control to save the burning vehicle.

We saw the coach's back on fire. Together with another two persons we looked frantically for fire extinguishers and found them far away, behind a toilet," said Yati.

She said she was waiting for family members to arrive from Sydney at 11:55 am yesterday.

"By the time, we came back to the coach with the fire extinguishers, the fire had engulfed half the vehicle and it was too big to put out," she told the Bulletin.

"During the incident, a fire engine came about 15 minutes after the mishap while a second one came five minutes later.

"We could have saved the bus had we found fire extinguishers in the vicinity," she said.

Meanwhile, the company that owned the 22-seater coach said it had some wiring repaired and had just come out from the workshop a day before.

Two are engines from the Airport branch assisted by eight personnel from the Berakas Fire Services were at the fire scene.

Personnel from the Berakas police station also responded. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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