Fireball: bus destroyed after burning gas canister thrown into the road by chef in China

A bus was destroyed in a fire in southwestern China after a burning gas canister was thrown into the street.

A chef in Chongqing was using an improvised blowtorch while cooking pigs’ trotters and a gas canister caught fire, the China News Service reported, citing the police.

He grabbed it and hurled into the street to stop the restaurant catching fire, but it rolled down a slope and into the bus waiting at a nearby stop.

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Eight passengers got out safely after the bus caught fire, the report said. Nobody was injured.