Bus filled with NYC high school students bursts into flames on Thruway

A charter bus full of students caught fire Friday on the New York State Thruway.

The frightening incident in the Catskills happened around 3:30 p.m. Friday on Interstate 87 just north of Saugerties, according to Ulster County officials and dispatch reports.

The charter bus carrying students from a Manhattan high school caught fire on the Thruway in the Malden West Camp Fire District, county officials announced in a Facebook post. The incident happened about 130 miles north of Manhattan…

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