{"id":242651,"date":"2026-03-11T14:25:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=242651"},"modified":"2026-03-11T14:36:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:36:56","slug":"6-dead-in-swiss-bus-fire-authorities-investigate-possible-self-immolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/242651\/","title":{"rendered":"6 dead in Swiss bus fire, authorities investigate possible self-immolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>At least six people died and three &#8203;were injured in a bus fire in western Switzerland in what police said may have been a deliberate act with one media outlet &zwnj;reporting that a person set fire to themselves, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/least-six-people-die-coach-fire-switzerland-local-police-say-2026-03-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the bus became engulfed in flames on Tuesday evening on a road in Kerzers, a town of about 5,000 inhabitants in the canton of Fribourg.<\/p>\n<p>According to a spokesperson for the Fribourg police, authorities currently have reason to believe that one of the people on the bus deliberately set themselves on fire.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least six people died and three &#8203;were injured in a bus fire in western Switzerland in what police said may have been a deliberate act with one media outlet &zwnj;reporting that a person set fire to themselves, Reuters writes. Police said the bus became engulfed in flames on Tuesday evening on a road in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":242644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242652,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242651\/revisions\/242652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}