Overview
- Police confirm six dead and five injured after a PostAuto bus caught fire near Murtenstrasse in Kerzers around 18:30 local time.
- Witnesses and video reported a man pouring petrol on himself and igniting it inside the bus, an account investigators are verifying.
- The Prosecutor’s Office of Fribourg is leading a criminal investigation with potential federal support to determine cause and motive.
- Authorities say the presumed author was a 60-year-old man with psychiatric issues who had been reported missing from a hospital the day before and died in the blaze.
- Officials have not designated the incident as terrorism, while DNA identification of victims and technical examinations of the bus, including door operation, continue.