6 injured as kombi catches fire

A woman sustained serious head injuries after she jumped through a window of a moving commuter omnibus and fell headlong on the tarmac in Bulawayo yesterday while five others, including the driver, also escaped with varying degrees of injuries from the vehicle that had caught fire along Khami Road opposite Bulawayo City Council stores at around 9AM as it was heading towards New Magwegwe.

The woman panicked when she noticed the fire and jumped through the window with her baby. She sustained serious head injuries while the baby was not injured. The cause of the fire could not be established immediately, but there are suspicions that petrol was leaking from the vehicle. Bulawayo chief fire officer Mr Richard Peterson said they rescued six people including an 11-year-old boy. All the injured people were rushed to Mpilo Central Hospital.

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