Arsonists target Adelaide Islamic school's bus

Arsonists have set fire to a school bus belonging to an Islamic college in the southern suburbs of Adelaide. 

The bus was parked outside the driver's Matheson Road home when it was engulfed in flames just before midnight.

"I quickly got some shorts on, got the hose, two hoses on and just dragged it and put the fire out," driver Errol Koch said. 

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Police and fire crews arrived to finish the job of bringing the blaze under control.

Koch has been a bus driver at IQRA Islamic College at O'Halloran Hill for two years, and told 9News he doesn't believe the arson attack was racially motivated. 

"It was a random attack. This is a very quiet area, it's very quiet," he said. 

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"It's very strange for something like this to happen. We've been here over 30 years and we've never had anything like this before."

As detectives were called in to investigate the incident, Koch used another school bus to get students to the college for the day.

This article was produced with the assistance of 9ExPress.