{"id":154322,"date":"2019-09-22T16:38:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T15:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=154322"},"modified":"2019-09-22T16:38:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T15:38:43","slug":"at-least-22-killed-after-bus-rams-into-hill-following-brake-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=154322","title":{"rendered":"At least 22 killed after bus rams into hill following brake failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/19\/09\/70x70\/skynews-pakistan-bus-crash_4782718.jpg?20190922103615\"><\/p>\n<div data-component-name=\"sdc-article-body\">At least 22 people have been killed after a bus rammed into a hill in Pakistan following a brake failure.<\/p>\n<p>Officer Abdul Wakil said the accident happened on Sunday in the Chilas district, on the route from Skardu to Rawalpindi, a city in the country&#8217;s northwest.<\/p>\n<p>Reports suggest up to 26 people have been killed, and 15 others have been injured.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Wakil said the remote mountainous terrain has made rescue efforts difficult, and that workers do not have the necessary equipment and resources.<\/p>\n<p>Amiruddin Mughal, in Pakistan, told Sky News that 37 passengers were on the bus at the time &#8211; including women, children, and soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Such accidents are fairly common in Pakistan, where motorists largely disregard traffic rules and battered roads are poorly maintained.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a speeding bus fell off a mountainous road into a river, killed 24 passengers.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 22 people have been killed after a bus rammed into a hill in Pakistan following a brake failure. Officer Abdul Wakil said the accident happened on Sunday in the Chilas district, on the route from Skardu to Rawalpindi, a city in the country&#8217;s northwest. Reports suggest up to 26 people have been killed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/154323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}