It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the regional branch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

“During the movement, a fire occurred in the engine compartment of the Neoplan bus, en route Dagestan - Moscow. Passengers, about 40 people, were evacuated, ”the department said.

It is specified that the bus caught fire on 911 km of the Moscow-Volgograd highway in the Ilovlinsky district of the Volgograd region.

There are no casualties.

Earlier, the passenger bus, which followed the route from Krasnodar to Yeysk, caught fire on the highway.

At the end of October, in the south-east of Moscow, a bus caught fire in front of the Lefortovo tunnel.