{"id":307521,"date":"2018-12-27T05:55:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T05:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307521"},"modified":"2018-12-27T05:55:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T05:55:48","slug":"7-dead-12-injured-as-bus-plunges-into-ravine-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/7-dead-12-injured-as-bus-plunges-into-ravine-in-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"7 dead, 12 injured as bus plunges into ravine in Colombia"},"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=\"464\" height=\"314\" 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: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At least seven people were killed and 12 others injured on Wednesday when their bus plunged 150 meters into a ravine, Colombia&#8217;s Transit 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;\">According to the reports, the driver lost control of the wheel and veered off the road in the town of San Mateo, in central Boyaca department, news agency reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Authorities said, \u201cthe cause of accident appeared to be a mechanical failure, but the vehicle, which was carrying 19 passengers, will be subject to revision, said chief of Boyaca&#8217;s Transit Police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The head of the police department in Boyaca said, \u201cthe 1967 model did not have the necessary paperwork showing it had undergone periodic mechanical tuneups.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThree lost their lives on the site while four others after receiving medical attention,\u201d said officer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The injured includes mostly farmers who were heading to a market, are being treated at the San Mateo Hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least seven people were killed and 12 others injured on Wednesday when their bus plunged 150 meters into a ravine, Colombia&#8217;s Transit Police said. According to the reports, the driver lost control of the wheel and veered off the road in the town of San Mateo, in central Boyaca department, news agency reported. Authorities [&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":[10428],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307521"}],"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=307521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307522,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307521\/revisions\/307522"}],"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=307521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}