YOU ARE RIGHT, It’s confusing..
The kids were still on the bus when he lit the fire. People smashed the windows and got the kids off, apparently.
Actually no.
“”While some colleagues were negotiating with him, others smashed the windows and got the passengers off the bus,” he continued. “That’s when the driver set the bus on fire.””
Who knows what is true here. Reporting is all over the place.
Well then, who were the passengers that he told to get off the bus before he set it on fire?
Sigh. I could be a better writer than 99% of journalists today.