{"id":307403,"date":"2018-12-22T08:09:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T08:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307403"},"modified":"2018-12-22T08:09:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T08:09:55","slug":"nepal-23-killed-as-bus-falls-into-gorge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/nepal-23-killed-as-bus-falls-into-gorge\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal: 23 killed as bus falls into gorge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301787 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/accident-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/accident-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/accident-696x471.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/accident-621x420.jpg 621w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/accident.jpg 748w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Twenty-three people were killed and 14 injured on Friday in western Nepal when a bus carrying students and teachers plunged into a gorge, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The fatal crash happened, when the bus carrying 37 people was returning from an educational trip in Kapurkot of Salyan district.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, the bus drove off the road and fell some 700 metres down near Ramri village.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Fourteen people including five women were injured in the accident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe students and instructors from Krishna Sen Ichhuk Polytechnic Institute had been visiting a farm for their botany project, reports said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Road accidents are relatively common in Nepal because of poor roads and reckless driving.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-three people were killed and 14 injured on Friday in western Nepal when a bus carrying students and teachers plunged into a gorge, police said. The fatal crash happened, when the bus carrying 37 people was returning from an educational trip in Kapurkot of Salyan district.\u00a0 According to the reports, the bus drove off the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[10372,552,10373],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307404,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307403\/revisions\/307404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}