An Intercity State Transport Company (STC) Bus was gutted by fire early this [Saturday] morning on the Peki-Kpeve stretch of the Eastern Corridor Road while conveying passengers to Nkwanta.<\/p>\n
According to eyewitnesses, the bus from Accra reached a spot between Peki and Kpeve when the driver\u2019s dashboard suddenly burst into flames.<\/p>\n
The fire spread through the vehicle resulting in a\u00a0stampede as passengers forced their way out to safety.<\/p>\n
The passengers, who mostly had their luggage loaded in vehicle’s boot, made frantic efforts to douse the fire but were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n
They all watched in despair as the bus with Registration number GC 5099 was completely razed by the inferno.<\/p>\n
\u201cPassengers on board did everything possible to quench the fire by throwing sand onto the bus but could not stop it\u201d an eyewitness recounted.<\/p>\n
None of the occupants of the bus suffered any injuries but Citi News<\/strong> understands that all luggage and other items on the bus were lost in the fire.<\/p>\n It is unclear what might have caused the fire but a source at the State Transport Company, who confirmed the incident to Citi News<\/strong>, said their outfit would soon officially inform the public on the details.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: King Nobert Akpablie\/ctifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An Intercity State Transport Company (STC) Bus was gutted by fire early this [Saturday] morning on the Peki-Kpeve stretch of the Eastern Corridor Road while conveying passengers to Nkwanta. According to eyewitnesses, the bus from Accra reached a spot between Peki and Kpeve when the driver\u2019s dashboard suddenly burst into flames. The fire spread through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":391209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[412,3,16113,1035],"class_list":["post-391204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-fire","tag-ghana-news","tag-peki-kpeve","tag-stc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/391209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}