This is the third such incident of a CNG-run bus catching fire in the capital in the past one week Yet another lowfloor DTC CNG bus caught fire near Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital on Monday morning. The DTC has taken a serious view of the accident and has asked the private manufacturers to do the needful. According to a fire department spokesperson, the engine of the bus, plying between Dwarka and New Delhi railway station, had caught fire at around 10.45 am. At the time, several passengers were present inside the bus. However, all of them managed to come out of the vehicle in time. Three fire tenders were rushed to the spot and the blaze was doused within a few minutes. Talking to this newspaper, chairman-cummanaging director of DTC, Mr Naresh Kumar, said: "The lubricant reserve fuel container near the engine was leaking. The spilling oil spread all over the engine and smoke began billowing out. These buses are sophisticated and it got completely jammed requiring a crane for towing. But the driver intelligently used ceased fire to bring down the temperature. The bus was fit to ply again within an hour of the incident," said Mr Kumar. This is the third such incident of a CNG-run bus catching fire in the national capital in the past one week. Meanwhile, in a meeting held by DTC in the evening, it was decided to ask Tata and Ashok Leyland, the two companies who have supplied the lowfloor buses to the DTC, to identify the reasons behind such fires and rectify the same. Incidentally, when the first such fire had occurred in a low-floor bus earlier this year, the two companies had stalled the delivery of buses to the Delhi government saying they wanted to examine the problems and rectify the mistakes before resuming delivery.