A scary second occurred in Kent, Indiana, as a bus carrying the Indiana College Indianapolis males’s basketball workforce caught hearth on the best way again from a highway sport on Saturday.
The workforce was getting back from its sport in opposition to Northern Kentucky when a mechanical subject triggered the bus to catch hearth.
The whole workforce and workers evacuated the bus safely, in accordance with a publish from IU Indy Athletics on X. The publish additionally talked about one other bus was en route on the time to select them up for the journey again to Indianapolis.
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Indiana College Indianapolis’ bus carrying the boys’s basketball workforce caught hearth on the freeway on Saturday. (IU Indy Athletics)
Photographs have been offered to Fox Information Digital by IU Indy Athletics, which confirmed the bus fully burnt and charred from the flames that engulfed it in the midst of the freeway.
One other picture confirmed bellowing black smoke rising from the bus, which triggered some apparent visitors on the freeway.
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The Jaguars fell to the Norse, 71-67, in Highland, Kentucky, earlier than the trip residence.
IU Indy is 9-20 total on the 12 months (5-13 in convention play). They’ve had a tough go of late, shedding 4 of its final 5 video games.
Indiana College Indianapolis’ bus carrying the boys’s basketball workforce caught hearth on the freeway on Saturday. (IU Indy Athletics)
Solely two video games stay within the common season, each of which might be at residence in Indianapolis.
They’ll face Robert Morris this Thursday at 6:30 p.m.
Their last residence sport of the season, which may also be Senior Day, might be in opposition to Wright State on Saturday afternoon at 2:30 p.m.
Indiana College Indianapolis’ bus carrying the boys’s basketball workforce caught hearth on the freeway on Saturday. (IU Indy Athletics)
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The Horizon League Event, the convention wherein the Jaguars play, begins on March 4.
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