A bus in Nanjing, China suddenly caught fire, causing two passengers to die, and five other passengers were injured.Preliminary investigations show that the cause of the fire is caused by the spontaneous combustion of lithium battery batteries carried by a passenger.

According to a notification issued by the WeChat account of the "Nanjing Jiangbei New District", the incident occurred at 11.42 am on Sunday (August 20) at the Nanjing Citiban Camp at National Highway 104.

At that time, an intercity buses from Lai'an County, Anhui to Nanjing Forestry Station suddenly caught fire during driving.At 12 o'clock, the fire was extinguished at the scene.

The report said that after a preliminary investigation, the reason for the fire was caused by the spontaneous combustion of lithium battery batteries carried by a passenger.The fire caused two passengers to die, and five other passengers burned. They had been sent to the hospital for treatment, and neither of them were life -threatening.