{"id":320410,"date":"2020-02-26T07:54:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T07:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320410"},"modified":"2020-02-26T07:54:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T07:54:58","slug":"rajasthan-24-killed-as-bus-carrying-wedding-party-falls-into-river-in-bundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rajasthan-24-killed-as-bus-carrying-wedding-party-falls-into-river-in-bundi\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajasthan: 24 killed as bus carrying wedding party falls into river in Bundi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-301787 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/accident.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"748\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/accident.jpg 748w, 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\" sizes=\"(max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" \/>At least 24 people who were part of a wedding procession were killed while four others sustained injuries after their bus fell into a river in Rajasthan&#8217;s Bundi district on Wednesday morning, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The bus with 28 passengers on board was headed to Sawai Madhopur from Kota early morning when it lost control while traversing a bridge and fell down in the Mej River near Papdi village.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Soon after the accident, the locals rushed to the spot to rescue passengers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, thirteen people died on the spot while 10 others succumbed to their injuries on way to hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot condoled the bereaved families who have lost their loves ones in tragic accident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI am deeply saddened to learn about the tragic accident in #Bundi in which 24 people have lost lives after the bus fell into river Mej.. My heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families who have lost their loves ones in this tragedy. I wish speedy recovery to all injured,\u201d Gehlot tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 24 people who were part of a wedding procession were killed while four others sustained injuries after their bus fell into a river in Rajasthan&#8217;s Bundi district on Wednesday morning, police said. The bus with 28 passengers on board was headed to Sawai Madhopur from Kota early morning when it lost control while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":301787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2560,2014],"tags":[12658,1478],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320410"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320411,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320410\/revisions\/320411"}],"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=320410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}