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Vancouver police are looking for two teenage girls after a TransLink driver was assaulted and a trolley bus was lit on fire Wednesday night.

TransLink says this bus was torched Wednesday night following an assault on the female driver.

Police said at about 10:30 p.m. the female driver stopped on Commercial Drive at Napier Street in East Vancouver and offered a group of young people Halloween candy.

"She opens up the door and she asks if they want some candy, " said Const. Howard Chow, a spokesman for Vancouver police.

"They say they do. She throws it out and for some unknown reason there's a bit of an argument or some yelling at the bus driver … Two teenaged girls then grabbed the bus driver, dragged her out and start beating on her," he said.

Investigators said two teenaged girls, reported to be wearing Santa hats, repeatedly "punched her multiple times in the head."

"The group then takes off quickly and then runs north on Commercial Drive, " Chow said. "Her injuries aren't that serious, but [it's] obviously a very traumatic experience for her."

The driver was so shaken by the incident she parked the bus and went home, police said.

About an hour later, the vacant bus was set on fire.

"The driver's compartment is pretty much burned out," said Drew Snider, a media relations consultant with TransLink.

"The fire spread quickly to the ceiling and melted a lot of the material there, a lot of the wiring," he said.

Police said they don't know if the two incidents are connected.

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