Hangzhou, China, July 6, 2014, (xinhuanet) — A bus fire that left 32 injured in east China’s Hangzhou on Saturday was caused by arson, police said Sunday morning.
Picture from survilliance video of the arson suspect was made public on July 6 (file photo).
Police have found that the bus fire was ignited by banana oil, a lacquer thinner. A man seriously injured was supsected to be the arsonist, who is being treated in hospital along with 28 others.
The fire broke out at around 5 p.m. Saturday, when the No.7 line bus carrying 80 people was on the Qingchun Road in the downtown of Hangzhou, capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province.
A source with the Hangzhou Public Security Bureau told Xinhua on Saturday that police have not found any clue showing the accident was related to terrorism.
Witnesses said drivers of some nearby private cars took out their extinguisher to join in the efforts to put out the bus fire. Passengers rushed out after the bus’s front door opened. Some smashed window glass and fled from the bus.