One of the newly acquired buses of the Metro Mass Transit was burnt beyond repairs on Wednesday at Opeikuma junction.
The bus with registration number GR 5182-15 caught fire whilst it was transporting passengers.
Fire fighters rushed to the scene to control the fire but that was when it had already destroyed the bus beyond recognition.
The cause of the fire is yet to be established.
Alarmed by the incident, the driver decided to stop, he added.
According to him, minutes after the bus stopped, the last back tyre exploded causing some other passengers to jump from the window of the bus.
Although the Ghana Fire Service was called to intervene, the witness said it took them more than 30 minutes to get to the scene.
But a fire officer said they delayed because the phone call went to the headquarters in Accra before it was transferred to them.
Even though the fire men were able to put out the fire, there was little to salvage from the bus.
Source: Dan Kwasi Prince // www.dailyviewgh.com / / Ghana
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