LUCKNOW, Sept. 19 -- Two buses, including one carrying 25 schoolchildren, caught fire at separate locations in the state capital early Saturday. A five-year-old boy suffered burns when his hand touched the hot engine bonnet while he was being evacuated from the school bus in Itaunja, while a Janrath AC roadways bus was damaged after hitting a flyover divider in Para, officials said.

The school bus (UP81 BT6203) caught fire near Bagha Purwa in Itaunja while ferrying students from Jamkhanwa village to a school in Manpur in the morning, police said.

"The children, aged between four and eight years, were evacuated after flames broke out from the engine. During the evacuation, the hand of a five-year-old boy came into contact with the hot en...