{"id":175761,"date":"2022-05-16T14:26:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T06:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=175761"},"modified":"2022-05-16T14:26:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T06:26:15","slug":"at-least-11-dead-in-peru-as-bus-crashes-into-ravine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=175761","title":{"rendered":"At least 11 dead in Peru as bus crashes into ravine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2022\/05\/16\/image-61045-1652681667.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0 LIMA, May 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; At least 11 people, including two children, were killed and another 34 injured after a bus crashed into a ravine in Peru,authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The accident happened on Saturday afternoon when a bus overturned and rolled 100 meters down a ravine in the Ancash region to the north of Lima, the Civil Defense said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bus was heading to Lima from the northern region of La Libertad along the main Tayabamba highway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have registered 34 injured and 11 dead after an accident in the Ancash region,&#8221; said a Civil Defense statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police and local residents worked until Sunday morning to try to free bodies from the wreckage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The injured were taken to the regional hospital in Sihuas province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities said they were investigating what caused the accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Road accidents are frequent in Peru due to speeding, poor road surfaces, lack of signs and minimal enforcement of rules by authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In February, 20 people died when a bus crashed into a ravine in the northern town of Tayabamba. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/facebook.svg\" alt=\"facebook sharing button\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/twitter.svg\" alt=\"twitter sharing button\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/messenger.svg\" alt=\"messenger sharing button\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/whatsapp.svg\" alt=\"whatsapp sharing button\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/sharethis.svg\" alt=\"sharethis sharing button\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 LIMA, May 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; At least 11 people, including two children, were killed and another 34 injured after a bus crashed into a ravine in Peru,authorities said. The accident happened on Saturday afternoon when a bus overturned and rolled 100 meters down a ravine in the Ancash region to the north of Lima, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":175762,"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\/175761"}],"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=175761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175763,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175761\/revisions\/175763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/175762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}