Electric bus catches fire during battery charging in Mumbai, nobody injured; BEST GM asks Tata Motors to check vehicles

An electric bus of the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST), Mumbai’s civic transport body, caught fire during battery charging in suburban Malvani early on Friday, officials said.

The incident occurred around 5 am and the blaze was doused within 15 minutes, they said, adding that nobody was injured in it.

It was a midi (medium-sized) electric bus that was being charged along with several other such vehicles at the charging bay.