The bus went up in flames on a highway in the central province of Shaanxi today, police in the provincial capital of Xian said on a verified social media account, adding they considered it "criminal case".
Chinese police in January captured a man suspected of starting a fire on a public bus in the remote northwestern Ningxia region that killed 17 people, according to state media.
Previously there have been several cases of attacks on Chinese public transport, especially buses.