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| Pakistan school bus fire kills 16 children | |
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| At least 16 children have been killed as their school bus caught fire in eastern Pakistan, police have said. | |
| At least seven more children were taken to hospital after the incident on the outskirts of the city of Gujrat. | |
| Initial reports said the bus's gas cylinder had exploded, but a local police chief told AFP news agency it was later found intact. | |
| He said a teacher also died in the blaze. Another police officer told AFP the driver had survived and fled. | |
| Dar Ali Khattak told the news agency the fire was apparently caused by a spark when the driver of the dual-fuel bus switched from gas to petrol. | |
| He said the children were aged between 5 and 15, and were just a few kilometres from their school in Gujrat, about 200km (120 miles) south-east of the capital Islamabad, when the fire broke out. | |
| Compressed natural gas is used in millions of vehicles in Pakistan as a cheaper alternative to diesel and petrol. | Compressed natural gas is used in millions of vehicles in Pakistan as a cheaper alternative to diesel and petrol. |
| Numerous previous vehicle explosions have been blamed on substandard cylinders used to contain the fuel. | Numerous previous vehicle explosions have been blamed on substandard cylinders used to contain the fuel. |