An electric bus has caught fire in London just days after two sparked panic in the capital after they also went up in flames.
A video posted on social media show flames engulfing a vehicle inside a bus garage in Putney yesterday.
Staff members inside the garage were reportedly safely evacuated and the fire was ‘promptly’ extinguished.
The single-deck bus had been operated by bus company Go Ahead London, who has now opened an investigation into what caused the huge blaze.
It added that it will undertake a precautionary fleet check of 380 London buses to ‘ensure continued confidence in them’.
It comes after another two electric double-decker bus burst into flames in the capital on earlier this month.
One hybrid vehicle caught fire in North Woolwich, East London, just before 7am on January 12 with onlookers shouting ‘what the f***’ as they were urged to ‘move back’.
A video showed the bus ablaze before dawn at the junction of Factory Road and Store Road, while photographs taken later in daylight showed its burnt-out shell.
And just one day before a huge blast ripped the back off an Optare Metrodecker bus on route 200 in Wimbledon at 7.20am on its way to Raynes Park.
MailOnline has contacted the London Fire Brigade, Go Ahead London and Transport for London for comment.
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