{"id":87335,"date":"2022-07-25T17:52:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T12:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=87335"},"modified":"2022-07-25T17:52:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T12:22:39","slug":"kenyan-bus-plunges-into-river-killing-24-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/kenyan-bus-plunges-into-river-killing-24-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan bus plunges into river, killing 24 people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>24 people killed after bus plunges into river in Kenya<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nairobi [Kenya], July 25 : At least 24 people died on Sunday evening after a bus plunged into a river along a highway in Kenya, local media reported, citing the rescue team and the Kenya Red Cross Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bus, en route from the central county of Meru to Nairobi, fell off a bridge into the Nithi River about 40 meters below, local media outlet Nation reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 20 passengers were hospitalized with serious injuries, and there were others missing, local radio station Capital News said, citing police and rescuers.<br \/>Preliminary investigations showed the accident may be caused by a brake failure, it said.<br \/>The bridge has been marked as a &#8220;black spot&#8221; as a large number of accidents have occurred there, Capital News said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 people killed after bus plunges into river in Kenya Nairobi [Kenya], July 25 : At least 24 people died on Sunday evening after a bus plunged into a river along a highway in Kenya, local media reported, citing the rescue team and the Kenya Red Cross Society. The bus, en route from the central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[499],"class_list":["post-87335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","tag-keyan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87337,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87335\/revisions\/87337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}