{"id":330446,"date":"2021-01-20T05:50:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T05:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=330446"},"modified":"2021-01-20T05:52:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T05:52:39","slug":"west-bengal-13-killed-in-road-accident-in-jalpaiguri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/west-bengal-13-killed-in-road-accident-in-jalpaiguri\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal: 13 killed in road accident in Jalpaiguri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; 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 13 people were killed and several injured in an accident in Dhupguri city of Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal on Tuesday night.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The accident occurred due to reduced visibility caused by fog.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The injured were taken to a hospital for further treatment. As many as 18 people sustained injuries in the accident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The incident happened after a boulder loaded truck slipped and rammed into several vehicles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A vehicle collided head-on with a boulder loaded truck. The truck driver lost control and two other vehicles which were coming from opposite directions collided into the body of the truck, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 13 people were killed and several injured in an accident in Dhupguri city of Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal on Tuesday night.\u00a0 The accident occurred due to reduced visibility caused by fog.\u00a0 The injured were taken to a hospital for further treatment. As many as 18 people sustained injuries in the accident. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":301787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2014,2917],"tags":[4922,411],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330446"}],"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=330446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330449,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330446\/revisions\/330449"}],"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=330446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}