Tourist bus on fire – level 1

05-08-2016 07:00

This news is from Taiwan. A bus goes to the airport. The bus is full of tourists. The people on the bus are from China.

A fire starts on the bus. The bus goes from one side of the road to the other. Then the bus hits the side of the road. All 26 people on the bus die in the accident.

Firemen say that the fire was big. Amateur video shows the bus on fire. People do not know what starts the fire. Now, people want to know more information about the cause of this fire.

Difficult words: accident (a bad situation when something hits something), cause (a fact which start something).

You can read the original story and watch the video in the Level 3 section.

Have you ever been in a road accident?

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