{"id":70984,"date":"2019-09-23T11:37:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=70984"},"modified":"2019-09-23T11:37:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:37:49","slug":"26-killed-as-passenger-bus-rams-into-mountain-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/26-killed-as-passenger-bus-rams-into-mountain-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"26 killed as passenger bus rams into mountain in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A bus rammed into a mountain on Sunday after the driver lost control while taking a turn on a hilly road in Pakistan\u2019s northwest, killing at least 26 people, including children, and injuring 13 others, police said.The accident happened in the Babusar Top area, bordering Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province with Gilgit-Baltistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rasheed Arshad, a spokesman for the Gilgit-Baltistan chief minister, confirmed that 26 bodies, among them women and children, have been retrieved from the wreckage.He said 13 passengers were admitted to the district headquarters hospital in Chilas and some of them were in critical condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The passenger bus, belonging to a private company, departed from Skardu on Saturday for Rawalpindi. On Sunday morning, the driver lost control of the bus while taking a turn and it collided against a mountain. It is not clear yet how the driver lost control of the vehicle, according to Diamer police spokesperson Mohammad Wakeel.Police said that rescue and police teams had been dispatched to the site of the accident.<\/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>A bus rammed into a mountain on Sunday after the driver lost control while taking a turn on a hilly road in Pakistan\u2019s northwest, killing at least 26 people, including children, and injuring 13 others, police said.The accident happened in the Babusar Top area, bordering Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province with Gilgit-Baltistan. Rasheed Arshad, a spokesman for [&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":70985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70984","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\/70984","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=70984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70986,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70984\/revisions\/70986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}