India, Sept. 24 -- The driver and conductor of the bus that caught fire on the Yamuna Expressway here allegedly ignored repeated warnings from passengers about a burning smell and refused to stop the vehicle, according to an FIR registered on a passenger's complaint.

Nine passengers were killed after the bus, travelling from Delhi to Mahoba in Uttar Pradesh, caught fire late Wednesday night, September 23. The incident took place near the 33-km mark of the Yamuna Expressway around 11.30 pm.

The FIR was registered at Jewar police station on the complaint of Suneel Kumar, a resident of Hamirpur district, who said he had boarded the Raj Kalpana Travels bus from Kashmere Gate in Delhi around 9 pm. Around 30-35 passengers were travelling on t...