{"id":77002,"date":"2019-12-25T10:49:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T10:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=77002"},"modified":"2019-12-25T10:49:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T10:49:38","slug":"at-least-24-dead-in-indonesia-bus-plunge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/at-least-24-dead-in-indonesia-bus-plunge\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 24 dead in Indonesia bus plunge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At least two dozen people died and 13 others were injured after a bus plunged into a ravine in Indonesia, police said.The bus carrying dozens of passengers careered into a 150-metre ravine in South Sumatra province just before midnight on Monday and ended up in a river, local police spokesman Dolly Gumara .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt crashed into the concrete road barrier before plunging into the ravine. Some people are still trapped inside the bus,\u201d Gumara said, adding no other vehicle was involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The regional bus left Bengkulu province for Pagar Alam with only 27 passengers but some survivors told police there were around 50 people on board when the accident happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSome passengers were probably added along the way so there\u2019s a possibility some more people are still missing in the river,\u201d Gumara said, adding the cause was being investigated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Traffic accidents are common in the Southeast Asian archipelago, where vehicles are often old and poorly maintained and road rules regularly flouted.In September, at least 21 people died when a bus plunged into a ravine in West Java\u2019s Sukabumi region. <\/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 two dozen people died and 13 others were injured after a bus plunged into a ravine in Indonesia, police said.The bus carrying dozens of passengers careered into a 150-metre ravine in South Sumatra province just before midnight on Monday and ended up in a river, local police spokesman Dolly Gumara . \u201cIt crashed [&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":77003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77002","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\/77002","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=77002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77004,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77002\/revisions\/77004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}