{"id":64145,"date":"2019-08-31T10:27:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T09:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=64145"},"modified":"2019-08-31T10:27:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T09:27:59","slug":"24-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/24-die-in-bus-crash-in-northern-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"24 die in bus crash in northern Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>At least 24 people were killed and two wounded when a passenger bus plunged into a deep ravine in northern Pakistan on Friday evening, local media reported.<\/h2>\n<p>The victims, belonging to the same family from the Upper Kohistan area, were on their way back from attending a wedding function.<\/p>\n<p>According to Geo News, a local broadcaster, the ill-fated bus was carrying 35 passengers, including women and children, when the accident happened, near the Kandia area of Kohistan.<\/p>\n<p>Upper Kohistan is a hilly area bordering the Gilgit-Baltistan region.<\/p>\n<p>In continuing rescue operations, locals along with specialized teams initially faced difficulties due to the darkness.<\/p>\n<p>Deadly road accidents are common in Pakistan mainly due to poor infrastructure, reckless driving, and lax safety standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 24 people were killed and two wounded when a passenger bus plunged into a deep ravine in northern Pakistan on Friday evening, local media reported. The victims, belonging to the same family from the Upper Kohistan area, were on their way back from attending a wedding function. According to Geo News, a local &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,14],"tags":[636],"class_list":["post-64145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-world","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}