{"id":148472,"date":"2021-10-15T12:06:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T04:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=148472"},"modified":"2021-10-15T12:06:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T04:06:52","slug":"bus-plunged-into-ravine-kills-6-injures-24-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=148472","title":{"rendered":"Bus plunged into ravine kills 6, injures 24 in Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BOGOTA, Oct 15 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; At least six people were killed and more than a score injured after a bus plunged into a ravine about 150 meters deep in rural Chaparral, a town in central Colombia&#8217;s Tolima department, Civil Defense confirmed Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The director of Civil Defense in Tolima, Major Luis Fernando Velez, said Wednesday&#8217;s crash occurred in a remote mountain region that made it difficult to reach the site and the victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vehicle &#8220;tumbled into a ravine in a high mountainous area that is difficult to access,&#8221; said Velez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have confirmed six deaths and 24 wounded with bruises and fractures on their bodies,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver reportedly lost control of the bus and veered off the road, according to the official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local authorities said the injured were taken to hospitals in Chaparral and the neighboring city of Ibague, Tolima&#8217;s capital, where four of the injured were in critical condition. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOGOTA, Oct 15 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; At least six people were killed and more than a score injured after a bus plunged into a ravine about 150 meters deep in rural Chaparral, a town in central Colombia&#8217;s Tolima department, Civil Defense confirmed Thursday. The director of Civil Defense in Tolima, Major Luis Fernando Velez, said Wednesday&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148472"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}