Palghar, Sep 30 (PTI) Passengers escaped unhurt after a civic transport bus caught fire in Nalla Sopara area of Maharashtra's Palghar district on Friday, an official said.<br> The incident took place around 3.30 pm near Dhaniv Baug locality, where flames erupted in a bus belonging to the Vasai Virar Municipal Corporation (VVMC), a fire official said.<br> All passengers travelling in the bus jumped out in the nick of time after noticing the flames, he said.<br> Locals made a frantic attempt to put out the fire. However, firemen arrived at the scene and put out the blaze in about one hour, the official said.<br> The bus was completely gutted in the blaze, the cause of which is yet to be ascertained, he added. PTI COR <br> <br> <br>ARU ARU