{"id":10724,"date":"2017-11-21T11:42:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T11:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=10724"},"modified":"2017-11-21T11:42:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T11:42:24","slug":"twenty-killed-as-truck-topples-onto-van-in-pakistans-sindh-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/twenty-killed-as-truck-topples-onto-van-in-pakistans-sindh-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty killed as truck topples onto van in Pakistan\u2019s Sindh province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 20 people including women and children were killed Monday when a lorry toppled over and shed its load of coal onto a passenger van in southern Pakistan, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Five people were injured in the accident in Khairpur district in Sindh province.<\/p>\n<p>A senior district police official said the truck was trying to overtake the van when it toppled and crushed the other vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe van (was) buried under the coal and at least 17 people including children and women died on the spot,\u201d Azfar Mahesar told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Eight injured people were rushed to hospital but three subsequently died, said hospital doctor Ghulam Jafar.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the bodies were badly crushed by the coal and so far just 10 have been identified, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan has one of the world\u2019s worst records for fatal traffic accidents, due to poor roads, badly maintained vehicles and reckless driving.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 20 people including women and children were killed Monday when a lorry toppled over and shed its load of coal onto a passenger van in southern Pakistan, police said. Five people were injured in the accident in Khairpur district in Sindh province. A senior district police official said the truck was trying to [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10726,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10724\/revisions\/10726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}