Krakow, Poland, Aug 27 (CTK) – A coach with 35 people from Czechia caught fire on a highway near Krakow in southern Poland on Saturday morning and almost completely burned down, with no one being hurt, Polsat television said on its website.
According to TVN 24 television, the coach was carrying tourists from Czechia. The public TVP television, too, said there were “Czech citizens” aboard.
The firefighting squad chief Boguslaw Szydlo said everyone left the bus safely and found refuge at a nearby petrol station. The fire has been extinguished, he told Polsat.
The Czech Foreign Ministry confirmed the incident to CTK. It added that nobody lost their luggage and that the passengers waited for the arrival of a replacement bus.
Marianna Wernerova, from the ministry’s press department, said no one had contacted the Czech embassy in connection with the incident. “According to the information provided to us by the Polish police, all 35 Czechs are fine, no one lost their luggage,” she said.
The causes and circumstances of the fire, which temporarily stopped the operation of the A4 motorway in the direction of Katowice, are being investigated, Polsat said.
Meanwhile, images of the charred wreckage have appeared on the Internet.
