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Pupils were forced to flee from a burning school bus this afternoon on a busy Scots road. ‌

Emergency crews rushed to Blackness Road just outside Linlithgow, near its junction with Springfield Road, at 12.40pm today. ‌

They had received reports that a bus carrying schoolchildren from Linlithgow Academy had gone up in flames. ‌

Two fire appliances raced to the scene, while police closed the road. After the inferno was extinguished, the E&M Horsburgh bus was seen being recovered from the scene at around 2.45pm.

Images show the double-decker vehicle with its back badly burned by the flames and windows gone. Its lower deck also appears to be damaged, with parts of the engine visible.

West Lothian Council has since confirmed here were no casualties, and everybod

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