HANOI, Vietnam (AP) \u2014 Seven people died and five were injured when a bus carrying passengers overnight burst into flames after crashing into roadside embankments near southern Vietnam’s Dong Nai City early Monday, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The vehicle was a sleeper bus \u2014 a long-distance coach fitted with reclining beds instead of seats commonly used for overnight travel in Vietnam. State media VN Express said that the accident took place at around 2:30 a.m., when the bus veered off the road and struck an embankment. It continued moving before hitting a second embankment and coming to a stop. <\/p>\n
Flames then erupted from underneath the vehicle and quickly engulfed the passenger cabin, it said.<\/p>\n
The driver, identified as 41-year-old Tran Thanh Hai, said he shouted for passengers to evacuate, but the fire spread too quickly for many to escape.<\/p>\n
It took half an hour for firefighters to bring the blaze under control.<\/p>\n
Authorities recovered the bodies of seven victims from the burned-out bus. Five injured passengers were taken to a hospital.<\/p>\n
The cause of the crash and fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) \u2014 Seven people died and five were injured when a bus carrying passengers overnight burst into flames after crashing into roadside embankments near southern Vietnam’s Dong Nai City early Monday, authorities said. The vehicle was a sleeper bus \u2014 a long-distance coach fitted with reclining beds instead of seats commonly used for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"guid":"41e85d47-5c57-4287-b8b1-452c41a212e2","source":"The Associated Press","byline":"","published":"2026-07-21 01:28:45","updated":"2026-07-21 01:28:45","_infotelid":"","_prepressid":"","_multisite_post_sync":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1303,1304],"tags":[],"region":[],"class_list":["post-6600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/infonews.ca\/inwheels\/news\/6600\/bus-bursts-into-flames-after-crash-in-southern-vietnam-killing-7\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Bus bursts into flames after crash in southern Vietnam, killing 7","url":"http:\/\/infonews.ca\/inwheels\/news\/6600\/bus-bursts-into-flames-after-crash-in-southern-vietnam-killing-7\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/infonews.ca\/inwheels\/news\/6600\/bus-bursts-into-flames-after-crash-in-southern-vietnam-killing-7\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"International","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Associated Press"}],"creator":["The Associated Press"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"iNwheels","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2026-07-21T08:28:45Z","datePublished":"2026-07-21T08:28:45Z","dateModified":"2026-07-21T08:28:45Z"},"rendered":"