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Unsafe modifications made to facilitate sleeping arrangements arsenic good arsenic inflammable goods, specified arsenic an LPG cylinder and mobile phones, successful the luggage compartment had made the V. Kavery Travels autobus a high-risk vehicle, said officials of the AP State Disaster Response and Fire Services Department and the Andhra Pradesh Forensic Science Laboratory (APFSL).
They added that this made the fire, which started owed to petrol leaking from the damaged substance tank, a raging inferno and gutted the autobus wrong minutes, starring to the deaths of 19 passengers.
Speaking to The Hindu connected Saturday, in-charge Director General (DG) of the AP State Disaster Response and Fire Services Department, P. Venkata Ramana said the proprietor had made galore unsafe modifications. “Cheap leather, spot covers, curtains, plywood and different worldly utilized successful the sleeper manager caught occurrence immediately,” helium said.
The exigency exits were not opened, neither were the compartment and the main doors of the bus. Passengers had small accidental of escaping from the leaping flames, helium said.
“As per the CCTV footage disposable and eye-witnesses, flames engulfed from the beforehand broadside of the autobus and leapt 8 to 10 feet high,” the Director General said.
APFSL Director G. Pala Raju said arsenic the aerial conditioners were connected and oxygen levels were precocious successful the sleeper coach, flames dispersed wrong nary time.
“According to the analysis, the autobus occurrence occurred betwixt 2.55 a.m. and 3 a.m.,” helium said.
“The substance vessel of the autobus got damaged and petrol spilled connected the roadworthy underneath the autobus which was the main origin of the mishap. The mobile phones and an LPG cylinder carried successful the luggage cabin, violating the rules, aggravated the fire,” Mr. Pala Raju said.
The autobus was carrying implicit 100 mobile phones successful the luggage cabin, which exploded aft the fire. “The autobus operator booked the bid for the mobile phones and loaded the boxes successful the luggage cabin,” Mr. Pala Raju said.
“We collected 83 samples of the burnt materials, including burnt luggage, motor parts, spot covers, damaged compartment phones, doors, melted upwind shields and different objects from the spot,” said Mr. Pala Raju.
Of the 16 FSL teams, 4 are moving connected carnal analysis, 2 connected chemic investigation and the remainder connected DNA preservation.
“The different materials that got burnt successful the luggage compartment request to beryllium verified. The APFSL is trying to find retired the different worldly loaded successful the luggage cabin. Forensic experts are trying to find retired the superior and secondary causes for the fire,” helium said, adding that chemic investigation volition uncover however the occurrence started.
“We volition analyse the reports of the Fire Services, APFSL and Transport Departments, CCTV footage, statements of the survivors and eye-witnesses’ accounts. A elaborate study volition beryllium submitted to the government,” a elder constabulary serviceman said.
