'Battery fault' causes electric bus to explode in Chinese tunnel

  • 6 years ago
An electric bus exploded while in a tunnel in eastern China due to a battery fault on Sunday (August 26).

Eyewitness video captured a fireball suddenly emerging from the bus after it had come to a halt in a tunnel in Tongling City in Anhui Province.

The driver cut the power to the bus and evacuated the only two passengers on it.

Fortunately, no casualties were reported.

Local reports said a battery fault was the cause.

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