48 Killed As Bus Catches Fire In China

48 people have been killed in a bus fire in southeastern
China, and is being investigated as a "serious criminal case",
state media said on Saturday, just days after 120 people died
in a fire at a poultry plant.
The bus caught fire during rush hour on Friday as it was
operating on elevated tracks in the coastal city of Xiamen, the
official Xinhua news agency reported, without elaborating on
the cause.
The case in southeastern China has initially been identified as
a "serious criminal case" and further investigations are under
way, the report said.
Earlier this week a fire at a poultry slaughterhouse in
northeastern China killed 120. Authorities said safety
management at the plant was a "total mess" and have
detained two senior executives.
Buses have been targeted before in China.
In 2009, a passenger ignited gasoline on a bus in
southwestern Chengdu, killing 27 and injuring dozens more.
Another 24 people died the same year in a shuttle bus fire in
Wuxi, near Shanghai, started by a disgruntled steel worker.
In 2005, a 42-year-old farmer with terminal lung cancer set
off a home-made bomb aboard a bus in southeastern China,
in a
suicide attack that wounded 31.