{"id":30349,"date":"2023-02-14T10:26:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T10:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=30349"},"modified":"2023-02-14T10:26:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T10:26:25","slug":"south-africa-tour-bus-crash-kills-20-in-limpopo-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=30349","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Tour bus crash kills 20 in Limpopo province"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A head-on collision between a tour bus and an armoured cash-in-transit van has killed 20 people and wounded 68 others in South Africa.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vehicles collided on a motorway bridge and the bus then tumbled into the river below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Three people were found deceased by the roadside and 16 down by the river,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/er24.info\/incidents\/louis-trichardt-twenty-killed-as-bus-rolls-from-bridge-into-a-river-following-a-head-on-collision\/\">paramedic company ER24 said<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Most of the fatalities down by the river had been trapped under the bus,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One person died later in hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AFP news agency reports that police divers were also searching the river that runs along the motorway &#8220;for people who might have been swept away&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigations are under way into what caused Monday evening&#8217;s crash on the N1 motorway in Makhado in Limpopo province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This region and others in South Africa have been suffering heavy downpours and flooding, prompting the government to declare a national disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The identities of the victims of the crash have not yet been revealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: A head-on collision between a tour bus and an armoured cash-in-transit van has killed 20 people and wounded 68 others in South Africa. The vehicles collided on a motorway bridge and the bus then tumbled into the river below. &#8220;Three people were found deceased by the roadside and 16 down by the river,&#8221; paramedic company ER24 said. &#8220;Most of the fatalities down by the river had been trapped under the bus,&#8221; it added. One person died later in hospital. AFP news agency reports that police divers were also searching the river that runs along the motorway &#8220;for people&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30351,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30349\/revisions\/30351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}