Sixteen students of a school in Navi Mumbai and two others had a miraculous escape after their bus caught fire on Monday afternoon, an official said.

The bus, which belonged to a school in Airoli and had 18 occupants, including driver and cleaner, was on Mumbai-Nashik road when it caught fire near the Signal School in Thane West at around 1:30pm, Regional Disaster Management Cell chief Avinash Sawant told PTI.